John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <adrian.glaubitz@suse.com> wrote:
That "usr" stands for "Unix System Resources", is a myth. It's short for "user" and used to be the canonical location for the home directories [1].
Correct, and /usr/bin was a common writable directory intended to permit users to share their private programs. Official UNIX programs have been in /bin only these days. BTW: Man pages for the shared private programs from /usr/bin exist because Stephen Bourne wrote a cron job that every night checked whether a new binary did also result in a better/newer man page. He explained that on a talk on a Sun User Group meeting in 1990. When /usr/bin has been kidnapped by the system, people invented /usr/local as an "escape" and soon admins kidnapped /usr/local ..... This was the reason to invent /opt in 1987 in order to break the chain of similar mistakes. Jörg -- EMail:joerg@schily.net Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/files/