Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Tracker
From: Jens M Andreasen (jens.andreasen_AT_chello.se)
Date: Sat Nov 29 2003 - 03:24:50 EET
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
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