$HOME/bin

[Michael Klinosky <mpk2@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello.
I installed Fedora 7 on one of my machines. In setting it up, I'm trying 
out what I've learned, and expand my knowledge.

One application that I use (BOINC, a distributed processing system) has 
some help pages off-site. The person states that a dir '$HOME/bin' 
should exist; if not, it should be created. (Btw, I didn't know about 
this dir until now.)

I see that Fedora anticipates this (it was in the path already). 
However, I don't understand why it's not hidden (i.e. '.bin'). Is this 
normal?