[TUHS] Abstractions

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 01:25:51PM +1300, Wesley Parish wrote:
> I've just checked Slackware 14.* and it's still got a few binaries in
> /bin, unlike the RedHat* group which has indeed sent them all to
> /usr/bin. I don't know about the Debian* group, or if the Mandrake*
> group have gone with the RedHat* or not. Let alone all the other
> distros.

More information about the /usr migration, can be found at:

* https://wiki.debian.org/UsrMerge
* https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge/

One of the interesting points made in the above is that merging /bin
and /usr/bin, et. al., was first done by Solaris 11 (ten years ago)
and so one of the arguments for Linux distributions for proceeding
with the /usr merge was to improve cross compatibility with legacy
commercial Unix systems.

So obviously, like so many other things, it's all Oracle's fault.  :-)

   	      	      	   	 	 - Ted