On Tuesday 05 June 2007 01:30, Curtis Rey wrote:
> On Saturday 02 June 2007, Mohammad Bhuyan wrote:
> > > "The KDE4 packages install into the /usr prefix hence KDE3 and
> > > KDE4 can be installed at the same time."
> >
> > what does it mean by "/usr prefix"?
>
> /usr stands for "unix system resources".

That is at best a back-formation. The directory name "/usr" is 
historical and goes back at least to version 7 Unix from Bell Labs and 
is simply a classic Unix three-letter abbreviation for "user." At the 
time, it was where user's home directories conventionally resided.


> ...
> HTH, Curtis


Randall Schulz
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