[Gllug] Linux directory conventions

[Andrew Halliwell]

And verily, didst Harry Mantheakis announce to the hordes:
> 
> Hello
> 
> What is the '/usr/local' directory used for, typically?
> 
> Just trying to get some of this stuff to stick :-)

/ partition == things essensial to booting
/usr == none-essensials included with the distribution
/usr/local == none-essensials added later
/opt == non-essensial BIG packages that'd overflow most self respecting /usr
partitions, such as KDE/Gnome/Netscape/StarOffice

So, things like getty, init, bash and vi are in /bin or /sbin (root
partition)
Things like joe, emacs, wvdial, etc tend to be in /usr
And, if, say, you installed leafnode from a tarball downloaded off their
site, rather than from an rpm included with the distribution, it would be
compiled and installed into /usr/local unless you told it different.

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