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> Small, lightweight, self-contained objects that perform a given function and that we can plug together in many ways. So Unix philosophy?

• technofiend 10y ago
  You bring up a really good point - that is the UNIX philosophy, but UNIX didn't win the datacenter wars: Linux did. And Linux doesn't entirely share that philosophy; depending on the Linux release it can be the polar opposite; piling on feature after feature into a monolithic block like systemd. That's not an indictment of systemd... it's just an example of how I'm not sure everyone has glommed on to the fact that just a GNU isn't UNIX neither is Linux.
  • felixgallo 10y ago
    systemd is a really recent development. Linux won the datacenter wars well before any of the recent desktop stuff started encroaching, and it did it on the back of being a free Unix clone.
    • digi_owl 10y ago
      Yep. Linux offered a free unix that was not touched by the AT&T lawsuit and could run on commodity hardware. Then we had the whole dot-com bust that freed up a whole lot of hardware to run LAMP stacks on, and things really got rolling.
    • technofiend 10y ago
      It is, but even the raft of features found in some GNU command line utilities are probably beyond the classic UNIX philosophy of small and simple tools.
• ThePhysicist 10y ago
  Almost: Containers go beyond the Unix philosophy in the sense that they (in theory) can run completely untrusted code, which isn't really advisable in a Unix system (although the system provides some means for it). Concerning composability and interoperability I'm with you, and I think it's a shame that Docker decided to build their own stack instead of improving LXC.