On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Linda Walsh
On 2012-11-18 19:27, Linda Walsh wrote:
Nep. /usr = short for /user... as separate from system.
Wrong.
--- Sorry, but have a quote of Dennis Ritchie one of the founders of Unix (dated from 1972)
"In particular, in our own version of the system, there is a directory "/usr" which contains all user's directories, and which is stored on a relatively large, but slow moving head disk, while the othe files are on the fast but small fixed-head disk. --- So From some history of unix pages (google origin /usr /bin in unix)
In the original Unix /usr housed homedirs for user accounts as well as other stuff of general interest to users.. this remains partially true today.
You can find a note from Dennis Ritchie's,[above]
So system stuff was traditionally kept in /bin and possibly /sbin, while "shared" user stuff may have been in /usr/bin instead. I have a few older commercial Unix flavours for x86, they also typically put user stuff in /usr.
While that's very interesting, modern usage still puts user-built (untrusted) binaries in /usr/local, and touching any other place in /usr is considered bad practice. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org