On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 10:18:37AM -0500, Bill Layer wrote:
> /bin - binaries, most basic commands are in here
> /sbin - system binaries, normally only root runs these

Like /lib, these should only contain files which are essential for the
system to boot.  The bulk of binaries, system binaries, and libraries
are in /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, and /usr/lib.

> While I know it is the greatest heresy, it would be good if one day we
> could settle on a single distro, or at least a single distro standard for
> the directory tree. This would ease so many things...

FHS?

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