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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).
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This needs some modernization and simplification, if Linux ever wants to make it to the mainstream.
This is a much better layout:
/system (contains /boot, /dev, /proc, /run, /sys, /tmp and /var, all the stuff no one ever looks at)
/config (/etc renamed to something sensible)
/apps (contains /bin, /sbin, /usr, /lib and /opt)
/server (renamed /srv, only gets created when needed)
/users (renamed /home, also contains /root now)
No one ever looks at /var? Isn't that where my Apache dir lives? Sorry, I've been off Linux for a while. I think I put Git in there as well.
That's not POSIX
POSIX sounds like Po-sex which is German for buttsex.
This is truly an education forum. Danke!
/bin and /sbin are symlinks already from /usr, so that's more than half of "apps".