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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I learned about 16 years ago on a Solaris course that /usr wasn't "user", I still say "user", but I'm happy to see the information spreading that that isn't what it actually is.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

It's going to be TOUGH to mentally replace.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Wow, what an odd coincidence.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I always thought it was user and never questioned it. Yeah man there's shared libraries in there for all the users, so it's user. This makes more sense now.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

usr did originally mean user and held user data.

Pretty sure this is a bacronym

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I used to pronounce it like yuzr, knowing that it wasn't user, but not knowing what it was.
Now I have better context. Maybe I'll go with U.S.R.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you want to confuse people... I pronounce /etc as "ets", but one of my coworkers recently called it "slash e t c" and I had to ask him to repeat it a couple times before I figured out what he meant...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Well, considering that I am with coworkers who don't remember when to and not to put the '/' at the start of the file path (despite me explaining it to them multiple times), "slash e t c" is probably the better way.