Re: [xubuntu-users] shell tools

2017-01-10 Thread Eric Christopherson
On Tue, Jan 10, 2017, pereira wrote: > I learn a lot here... keep it going! > > > Like /usr > > No, it is NOT a short name fuer /user > > It is an abbreviation of UNIX system ressources. > > > > We have to live with it since 1970 :-) That's a total urban legend, a folk etymology, and a

Re: [xubuntu-users] shell tools

2017-01-10 Thread pereira
I learn a lot here... keep it going! Like /usr No, it is NOT a short name fuer /user It is an abbreviation of UNIX system ressources. We have to live with it since 1970 :-) -- xubuntu-users mailing list xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Re: [xubuntu-users] shell tools

2017-01-10 Thread Ulli Horlacher
On Tue 2017-01-10 (21:48), Peter Flynn wrote: (/opt) > The idea has merit but the name is bad. > What I said: call things what they are, not what imagination offers. > Calling it /apps might have been a better idea, but it's too late now, > just another ill-considered name that needs better

Re: [xubuntu-users] shell tools

2017-01-10 Thread Peter Flynn
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 2:06 AM, Ulli Horlacher > SysV UNIX On 01/10/2017 12:17 PM, Benjamin P. August wrote: > In some worlds it was /opt and others it was /usr/local that got used > for extra packages. > But Solaris (SysV based) used /opt, and once upon a time it was the #1 > proprietary

Re: [xubuntu-users] window blanking and won't come back to life

2017-01-10 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 11:34 AM, MR ZenWiz wrote: > On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 7:53 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > > > > > > On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 4:45 AM, Ulli Horlacher < > frams...@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote: > >> > >> On Thu 2017-01-05 (09:28), Kevin

Re: [xubuntu-users] shell tools

2017-01-10 Thread Len Philpot
Of course it depends onthe developer/packager to an extent(whether or not they follow standards). Thereare the occasional packages that install under /opt yet also put stuff under /usr/lib, /usr/share, etc. Fortunately that doesn't happen too often. On our Solaris boxen, we have stuff in just

Re: [xubuntu-users] shell tools

2017-01-10 Thread Benjamin P. August
In some worlds it was /opt and others it was /usr/local that got used for extra packages. But Solaris (SysV based) used /opt, and once upon a time it was the #1 proprietary UNIX. On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 2:06 AM, Ulli Horlacher < frams...@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote: > On Mon 2017-01-09 (22:33),