Nils to [email protected] • 11 months agoHow dare you mention upsides of Wayland or systemdmessage-square29fedilinkarrow-up1134arrow-down19file-text
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minus-square@fogetaboutitlink8•11 months agoWhat ive heard is the “linux philosophy” argument. Its just doing too many things.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink6•edit-211 months agothis comment shows how the word of mouth actually distorted the argument its not the linux philosophy but one sentence of the unix philosophy (linux is not unix) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy Make each program do one thing well. To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new “features” besides being over 40 years old at this point fun fact the linux kernel would actually not really fit this since it is an monolithic kernel
minus-square@fogetaboutitlink2•11 months agoAh sorry, unix not linux. I didnt think of that before, it seems so obvious that linux kernel isnt doing one thing well, it does everything ever, kind of well.
What ive heard is the “linux philosophy” argument. Its just doing too many things.
this comment shows how the word of mouth actually distorted the argument
its not the linux philosophy but one sentence of the unix philosophy (linux is not unix)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy
besides being over 40 years old at this point
fun fact the linux kernel would actually not really fit this since it is an monolithic kernel
Ah sorry, unix not linux. I didnt think of that before, it seems so obvious that linux kernel isnt doing one thing well, it does everything ever, kind of well.