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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 bac
by 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 agoYep. 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 agoIt 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.