few ideas how to make fedora better as a desktop

[Gary Thomas]

Bill Crawford wrote:
> On 27/03/2008, Shawn Starr <sstarr at platform.com> wrote:
> 
>>  This is because /sbin was for 'static' binaries (static-bin). We needed this back when live CDs didn't exist, or if you somehow foobared your GNU libc you had /sbin/sln (static link) to fix a system, now a days you pop in a CD, chroot to the saddened Linux system and repair it easily.  You used /sbin as your emergency kit and superuser tools.
> 
> Gee, thanks for the history lesson.
> 
> Of course, if you can find me an example of dynamic linking from the
> time when "sbin" came into existence (other than on VMS) let me know
> ...
> 

The Xerox Data Systems (eariler SDS) running UTS had shared
libraries back in the late 60's :-)
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_Data_Systems

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