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>>csmant+(OP)
This post gets some of the details wrong. /usr/local is for site-local software - e.g. things you compile yourself, i.e in the case of the BSDs the ports collection - things outside the base system. (They may be compiled for you).

Since Linux has no concept of a base system, it's a stand-alone kernel with a hodgepodge of crap around it - this distinction makes no sense on Linux.

/opt is generally for software distros for which you don't have source; only binaries. Like commercial software packages. More common on Real UNIX(R) because most Linux users outside enterprise aren't running commercial software. You're putting your $500k EDA software under /opt.

>>schmuc+3q
I normally wouldn’t be this pedantic, but given that this is a conversation about pedantry it only seems right: you’re using i.e. and e.g. backwards.

>>Uehrek+xH
My mnemonic is “In Essence” and “for EGsample”

>>rrauen+GI
I just remember the actual words:

* e.g. exempli gratia (or, in Spanish, ejemplo gratis)

* i.e. id est (literally means "that is")