Am Mittwoch, 8. November 2017 schrieb Steve Litt: > On Tue, 7 Nov 2017 21:30:02 +0100 > marc <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello > > Hi Marc, > > =================================================== > Quote from John Hughes > > > I come from a Unix background -- separate /usr was deprecated in > > > the 1990's with SVR4.2, I'm kind of amazed it took Linux so long to > > > catch up. > =================================================== > > > Clearly I must have been working in a parallel universe - the > > commercial unix systems that I remember from the 90s did have > > /usr and / (some also had /opt and /usr/local in various forms) > > And what I can add as that when I was a Linux newbie around the turn of > the century, my much more experienced LUGmates were recommending a > separate /usr, separate /boot, and in fact a tiny, tiny / with all > major directories mounted. >
*BSD has a seperate /usr now and I do not think it's going to vanish anytime soon. And when doing things in embedded world, it's handy, too :-) Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
