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		musicale on April 6, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Debian still having trouble with merged /usr Nice backronym, but /usr/ken (etc.) in v6 shows that /usr was originally a user disk. You could ask Ken Thompson (/usr/ken) himself to verify. ;-)

cptnapalm on April 6, 2022 [–]

Given that he is THE Ken Thompson, I'd argue that he was, in fact, the UNIX system resource.

musicale on April 7, 2022 | [–]

Bahahaha. Same probably goes for everyone else in /usr/ like /usr/dmr.

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