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
