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Bjornsdottirs

@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).

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Luisa Donato

@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 : tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-

Luisa Donato

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)

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