Re: "Program Files" folder

[John Emmas <johne53 tiscali co uk>]

On 21 Apr 2011, at 12:20, David NeÄas wrote:

> Your distro is quite eccentric.  The usual convention is that mere users
> have write permissions to
> - anywhere in their homes
> - temporary directories (/tmp, /var/tmp)
> - a few other places in /var such as /var/spool/mail/$USER
> - removable media mounted by the user (if permitted)

Thanks David.  I just checked OpenSuse which I've got installed on a different machine.  For OpenSuse, 
"/bin", "/opt" and "/usr/bin" are not accessible to me as a mere user.  However, "/usr/local/bin" is fully 
accessible to everyone.  As with 64studio, /bin and /usr/bin seem mostly to contain OS related apps whereas 
/usr/local/bin seems to contain stuff that I've installed using automake.  Two distros is still only a small 
sample though....

John