Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2016 15:12:50 +0100 From: krad <kraduk@gmail.com> To: Lars Eighner <luvbeastie@larseighner.com> Cc: Orville Jones <alwanbi@live.com>, "dpchrist@holgerdanske.com" <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What does user land mean? Message-ID: <CALfReyeqSwM7ri7AGjBX8KJBHiPfbaPPzSUwBxMb6-j%2B6ysjBg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1607020825030.31947@abbf.ynefrvtuareubzr.pbz> References: <20160630175243.063e07a7@KoggyBSD.org> <2485.194.255.20.11.1467403918.squirrel@holgerdanske.com> <BLU180-W83A28D8447F84A05D57516DD260@phx.gbl> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1607020825030.31947@abbf.ynefrvtuareubzr.pbz>
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A user land program can totally be part of the system. eg ls is a userland program. Userland just means something that runs that isn't part of the kernel. On 2 July 2016 at 14:43, Lars Eighner <luvbeastie@larseighner.com> wrote: > In modern talk, user land would be apps -- things that are not part of the > system, but are programs that you want on a particular system. > > They tend to exist in the /usr directory. Some of them are things that you > will want in every sane system. These tend to be in /usr/bin and /usr/sbin > and some of them are installed with a minimal installation -- but you could > have a system without them (you just wouldn't want to). > > Then there are the addons which are more or less optional depending upon > what you are tasking the machine to do. Most of these are installed as > ports > and generally go in /usr/local with its bin, etc, lib, sbin, and so forth. > You probably don't want a web server in a machine dedicated to mail, and so > forth. > > This is not all perfectly logical and strict because there are many > artifacts of various legacy organization schemes, but in a general way it > gives you an idea where to look for stuff. > > > > > On Sat, 2 Jul 2016, Orville Jones wrote: > > I started using FreeBSD in March 2016 just to see what it was about. >> I am slowly getting up to speed on learning to do things the FreeBSD way. >> What do people mean when they refer to "user land" ? >> >> Kind Regards, >> Orville >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to " >> freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> >> > -- > Lars Eighner > http://www.larseighner.com/index.html > 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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