Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin split is both a fun stroll through UNIX history and also a good illustration about how far-reaching decisions are sometimes made based on short-term limitations, creating long-term complexity where it otherwise might not exist. This is probably unavoidable, but nudges me toward the conclusion that all decisions ��� behind which there may be serious conviction, or the best of intentions ��� should be reviewed on some routine basis (once a generation?...
Published on May 11, 2022 07:53