Gregory's ServerHow old were you when you found out that /usr stands for Unix System Resources and not for user?
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@Luisa_Donato I was today years old. Thanks. (btw your post is marked as being Italian instead of English; you might want to edit it to change that.)  @Luisa_Donato Next you will be telling me that /bin isn't where you put files you want deleted.   @Luisa_Donato Sounds like a backronym in a system known for dropping letters in names, eg creat()  @Luisa_Donato ⚡ Negative years old. It stands for user. It just got repurposed because Unix grew too large for /, so it had to be put into /usr (which is now called /home or /usr/home as a result). @ellenor2000 “The name hasn't changed, but it's meaning has narrowed and lengthened from "everything user related" to "user usable programs and data". Source : https://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/usr.html However, I shared the Linux documentation, because you’re referring to it, but the sense of the post was generic on /usr. I haven't invented anything, you can easily search on any search engine and it will report precisely that the /usr folder stands for Unix System Resources (few people interpret it as User System Resources, never User, but it is just an interpretation, everyone can think of it as you wish, but the standard says Unix System Resources)  @Luisa_Donato Today. I was today years old. In fact I can be more specific. Just now. I was just now years old.  @Luisa_Donato oh no you made me break my streak of successfully not thinking about Stallmann for months 😭   @Luisa_Donato as old as I was few seconds ago while I was reading your toot!   @Luisa_Donato I actually thought it was User Shared Resources, so... Today years old :ac_laughter:    @Luisa_Donato @thisismissem Today years old. Is there a source of truth? Looking around I see “User”, “Universal”, or “Unix” with an interesting discussion claiming User was originally correct https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/103347/pronunciation-for-usr-directory  @boby_biq @Luisa_Donato 25 years i've been using unix for and while i always found it a bit odd, it never occurred to me it could stand for anything other than user @almostconverge @Luisa_Donato I’m still recovering from this, I.. I just need a minute.. or two. @Luisa_Donato I don't think so. It must be an acronym invented after the fact. The internet seems to agree with me. e.g. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/8677/why-do-usr-and-tmp-directories-for-linux-miss-vowels-in-their-spellings @Luisa_Donato Five minutes younger than now. What is next? /etc does not mean « all the other stuff »? @Luisa_Donato
... and how old were you when you realized that this was a hoax and it stands for us robotics, instead? @Luisa_Donato It doesn't. "When the operating system grew too big to fit on the first RK05 disk pack (their root filesystem) they let it leak into the second one, which is where all the user home directories lived (which is why the mount was called /usr)" https://www.pixelstech.net/article/1477109665-Unix-directory-hierarchy-history @Luisa_Donato @Luisa_Donato I was today years old when I learned that /usr stands for "Unix System Resources". I searched though and discovered that originally it was "user", and since I am old it probably meant "user" when I started using Unix. 😉 https://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/usr.html  @Luisa_Donato Today years old, and I’ve been using Unix (AIX, AUX, and Mac OS) and Linux for at least 30 years.     @Luisa_Donato I was 660 when I learned that "/usr" is "UNIX System Resources". I wasn't sure it meant "user", however. @TheQuinbox @Luisa_Donato "/usr" was what is now "/home", so it does stand for user. Some have changed it to Unix System Resources, but this really isn't correct. https://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/usr.html @TheQuinbox @Luisa_Donato Here is more history on the subject. http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html   @Luisa_Donato today although a few places call is User System Resources https://askubuntu.com/questions/1120568/what-is-the-meaning-of-usr  @Luisa_Donato I thought it was Unix Shared Resources, but System makes more sense, considering that /usr/share is a thing.  @Luisa_Donato @smallsco Much younger than when I found out that it *used* to stand for user, then the user directories got moved to a second drive (and renamed to ‘home' or something), and then they invented a backronym for the files that were still in the ‘usr’ directory.  |
@Luisa_Donato get...out! *shove*