[linux-audio-dev] Tracker

Jens M Andreasen jens.andreasen at chello.se
Sat Nov 29 01:24:50 UTC 2003


On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 19:26, Benjamin Flaming wrote:

> For the benefit of Linux newcomers like me, could someone explain the 
> historical reasons why we even have a /usr/local directory to begin with?
> 

Think NFS or AFS (Networking or Andrew File System.)

/usr/bin can be mounted globally for all machines
/usr/local/bin can be unique for each machine (or department ..)

mvh // Jens M Andreasen




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