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   Xenotar (xenotar@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jul-2026 01:29:48 JST Xenotar

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   @argv_minus_one @nixCraft
   With Linux creating local `/home` directories, placing applications in `/usr/bin` and `/usr/lib`, and merging `/lib` with `/usr/lib`, `/bin` with `/usr/bin`, and `/sbin` with `/usr/sbin`, etc we are heading toward a Linux version of `C:\Windows`.

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     @argv_minus_one @nixCraft I liked the setup SunOS 4 used. User home directories were located in `/home/hostname`, which made it easy to share them via NFS across multiple workstations. Shared applications resided in `/usr/local` on the disk server and were shared by all workstations, while accounts were managed via NIS.
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     #NeXT / #Apple had the right idea.

     * User homes are in /Users

     * Each app is in /Applications and looks like a regular file but is actually a folder (i.e. you can cd into it and examine the contents)

     * The operating system is in /System

     * Files shared among apps (except files that come with the OS), including configuration files, are in /Library

     * Static libraries, debug info, C headers, OS API reference docs, etc go in /Developer

     #macOS #MacOSX #NeXTSTEP #Linux #Unix #BSD

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     nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jul-2026 01:29:51 JST nixCraft 🐧

     Origin of unix /bin, /sbin, and /usr/bin , /usr/sbin split

     https://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html