Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 26, 2006 07:50 AM
One major philosophical difference between FreeBSD and Linux is that FreeBSD is a complete system while Linux is a collection of tools and a kernel. (Don't flame me over this, it's all over the web and I'm just telling it like people see it, =).
Because of this, everything in<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/bin,<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/sbin,<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/usr/bin,<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/usr/sbin, and<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/etc are system binaries and files. Everything under<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/usr/local is supposed to be user-added stuff. For example, I keep my Apache config files in<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/usr/local/etc and Postfix is in<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/usr/local/sbin/postfix, but neither is part of the FreeBSD system.
It keeps a good, clean line between system and user files and binaries. Theoretically, I can delete<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/usr/local and return my system to a fairly, clean state.
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Re:/usr/local
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 26, 2006 07:50 AMBecause of this, everything in<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/bin,<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/sbin,<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/usr/bin,<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/usr/sbin, and<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/etc are system binaries and files. Everything under<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/usr/local is supposed to be user-added stuff. For example, I keep my Apache config files in<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/usr/local/etc and Postfix is in<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/usr/local/sbin/postfix, but neither is part of the FreeBSD system.
It keeps a good, clean line between system and user files and binaries. Theoretically, I can delete<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/usr/local and return my system to a fairly, clean state.
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