8 Feb
2017
8 Feb
'17
5:10 a.m.
And I think it has been peed on by many different people trying to leave
their own mark on it along the way.
On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 11:06 PM, Marc Rochkind <rochkind(a)basepath.com>
wrote:
Of course. Linux is:
1. old,
2. designed by a huge group,
3. intended to serve many purposes
UNIX was, at least in its early days, the opposite in all three ways. But,
after 15 years or so, it also was numbers 1 - 3. (Speaking of System V
here.)
There have been OSes that remained beautifully sleek and uncluttered
forever. Such as BeOS. However, all such systems failed to achieve critical
mass. Which is why they remained true.
No way out of this trap.
--Marc
On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 8:03 PM, Doug McIlroy <doug(a)cs.dartmouth.edu>
wrote:
Lots of commands are now little shells
...
Linux today is much more like the systems
Unix displaced than it is like Unix
So depressingly true!
Doug