August 18th, 2008 | No Comments »
For programming in C and other languages, we need header files to provide definitions of constants and declarations for system and library function calls. For C, these are almost always located in /usr/include and subdirectories thereof. You can normally find header files that depend on the particular incarnation of Linux that you are running in [...]
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August 18th, 2008 | No Comments »
Applications are usually kept in directories reserved for them. Applications supplied by the system for general use, including program development, are found in /usr/bin. Applications added by system administrators for a specific host computer or local network are often found in /usr/local/bin or /opt.
Administrators favor /usr/local, as it keeps vendor-supplied files and later additions separate [...]
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