15 Mar
2017
15 Mar
'17
2:54 a.m.
On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 4:05 PM, Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
Being too like a duck carries its own risks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp_l5ntikaU
Somehow, I feel that clip is an apt metaphor for the computing world in
general and Linux in particular, but I'm having a hard time articulating
exactly how.
Side note: I'm a bit of a bitch when it comes to Linux - which doesn't mean
Well said!
- Dan C.
On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 3:48 PM, Arthur Krewat <krewat(a)kilonet.net> wrote:
...and Multics, whatever assembler DEC provided for the PDP-7 and so on
back to the discovery of the integers and zero. Pretty soon you find
yourself in the court of the Chola empire....
...
So what I'm hearing is Linux's
timeline, which includes things that were
not developed just for Linux, extends further out than SunOS does.
Mumble... the problem of course is the under those rules, SunOS goes
back to research which goes back to V0....
All I'm
saying is comparing Linux's timeline to something like SunOS has
to include everything that went into both because they both relied on
precursors.
Except for any possible legal reasons....why differentiate ? Looks like
a Duck, Quacks Like Duck or from a Turing Test.... I'm mostly can not tell
the difference.
I don't
think Linux is "UNIX" - it just means I think it's the Coherent of
today's UNIX ;)
I guess it doesn't matter to me that much. Some of the changes are
gratuitous and annoying, which brings out my inner curmudgeon as its make
its tough to type to sometimes. But the fact is, UNIX, Linux, Macos are
pretty much the same thing - much more so than winders. They are way more
similar than different and I can be productive with all three. To me its
like ethnicity in people. It says a little about some of how you might
look at something, what some of you shared positions/starting points are,
but we are way more alike than different and I would rather learn from the
differences than fight them or try to inflict my wishes. We are better
with diversity.