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List:       linux-audio-dev
Subject:    Re: [linux-audio-dev] Tracker
From:       Jens M Andreasen <jens.andreasen () chello ! se>
Date:       2003-11-29 1:24:50
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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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