Hey, I’ve recently designed a Poster about the FHS since I often forget where I should place or find things. Do you have any feedback how to make it better?
I updated the poster: https://whimsical.com/fhs-L6iL5t8kBtCFzAQywZyP4X use the link to see online.
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The origin is that
/usr
may be network mounted or otherwise shared across multiple systems, whereas/usr/local
is local to a particular PC. That definition is not as relevant with today’s single-user machines, and now it mostly means what you said (/usr is managed by system package manager whereas /usr/local is manually managed).