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Linked List: November 30, 2005

Wednesday, 30 November 2005

Interview With Dean Allen About Textpattern ★

Dean Allen:

I always thought the most important thing for writers was to write, and not think about the tools they’re using. Textpattern was intended as a web writing tool, that would give little resistance to someone who simply wanted to publish regularly on the Internet.

Using /usr/local ★

Dan Benjamin’s nice intro to Unix file system layouts. If you’ve ever wondered what the difference is between /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin, read this.