few ideas how to make fedora better as a desktop

[Alan Cox]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 02:21:13PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> OK, when tiny disk drives cost $10,000 and had to come from the same 
> vendor as the CPU, and you couldn't boot from anything else there was a 
> reason to have /bin and maybe /sbin separate.  But that was in some 
> other century.

Go back that far and you are talking about bin versus usr.

Historically bin was on the fast fixed head disk and usr/bin on the moving
head disk.

sbin is a SunOS era invention that exists essentially because they didn't
have a nice mechanism to boot a box and recover it if you broke the shared
libraries (and they were quite fragile)