I found this
according to ernest it stems from /sbin. though one of the early instances was named karabin based on the karabine gun and thus shortened to kbin (or rather expanded from kbin).
(Ernest Wiśniewski is the creator of kbin)
this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2023
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