Giles Coochey wrote:
On 02/07/2012 14:48, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
Am 01.07.2012 07:40, schrieb Les Mikesell: [distinction between /bin and /usr/bin]
<nice summary snipped>
- Cheap retail hard drives passed the 100 megabyte mark around 1990, and
partition resizing software showed up somewhere around there (partition magic 3.0 shipped in 1997).
Um, nope. 100M drives weren't "cheap" until well into the nineties. *Companies* could afford them by '92 or '93. '90? I think it was the holiday season of '89 that my bosses in the tiny, tiny software co. I worked for gave us presents, and mine include a *huge* 30M h/d (*way* bigger than the 20M I had), knowing they'd get use of it, with me working at home one weekends.... <snip>
/usr/local was for your specific installation's files. Then somebody decided /usr/local wasn't a good place to install new packages, so let's add /opt! I'm still waiting for /opt/local to show up...
Sun added /opt; I think Oracle used it, too, about the same time.
At least here, my manager believes in /usr/local.... <snip>
mark
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