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Considering the broad range of such softwares that already exist, written by people such as Felix von Leitner, Gerrit Pape, Laurent Bercot, and so on, why do yo
by JdeBP 9y ago
Considering the broad range of such softwares that already exist, written by people such as Felix von Leitner, Gerrit Pape, Laurent Bercot, and so on, why do you think that Linus Torvalds is the person to write one? Or needs to write one?
* http://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/09/05/0/ http://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/09/05/0/
* http://skarnet.org/software/s6-linux-init/ http://skarnet.org/software/s6-linux-init/
* http://smarden.org/runit/runit-init.8.html http://smarden.org/runit/runit-init.8.html
* http://www.fefe.de/minit/ http://www.fefe.de/minit/
* https://jdebp.eu/Softwares/nosh/guide/system-manager.html https://jdebp.eu/Softwares/nosh/guide/system-manager.html
- noisy_boy 9y agoThere were many version controls systems before Git came along. He doesn't need to write it. But if he wants, he has the technical chops to do a damn good job of it.
- digi_owl 9y agoFew did what Git does, take multiple forks and merge them. Most that came before were good at forking, but not so good at merging.
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]