What does user land mean?

[krad]

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 at 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
>>
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