28 Nov
2003
28 Nov
'03
9:26 p.m.
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