Re: Things Linux Can Do Without

Maxwell Lol staggered into the Black Sun and said:
jayjwa <jayjwa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
I bet Ubuntu users wear out their keyboards' "s", "u", "d", and "o"
keys real fast.
sudo bash or su and become root.

By default, in Ubuntu, no password is set for root, so su by itself may
not work until you've done "sudo passwd root". "sudo bash" is what I
tend to use on Ubuntu-like distros if I have to do more than 1 or 2
commands as root.

/usr/local. It's ALL local. If not, then the convention should be
"/usr/network". Or "/usr/non-local",
It's not all local in NFS environments. Besides /usr/local typically
means local additions that are non-standard and lost during upgrades.

As other posters have said, /usr/local/ in Linux refers to things which
are not managed by your distro's package manager. It has nothing to do
with local disks, but could be thought of as "local to this particular
machine". Package managers are not supposed to place files in
/usr/local/ , though they may create directories within that tree in
some cases.

The convention's different in *BSD IIRC. There, /usr/local/ contains
almost everything, and /usr/bin/ et al only contain the base system.
(Which makes me wonder where *BSD users install things that aren't in
the ports tree. There has to be somewhere they can do that, I just
don't know what it is.)

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