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>, thereby violating the so-called Unix Philosophy of doing one-thing well. For a user app to do that is one thing, but for a core OS component to do that just
by ksk 9y ago
>, thereby violating the so-called Unix Philosophy of doing one-thing well. For a user app to do that is one thing, but for a core OS component to do that just smells way too much like forcing Linux to be more like Windows, which a lot of hard-core Linux users are ideologically opposed to.
That ship sailed a long ago when Linus ranted against microkernels :) Linux was never meant to follow a 'do one-thing well' design. It was designed to be a monolithic do-all-things design that's also highly modular.
- pmoriarty 9y ago"That ship sailed a long ago when Linus ranted against microkernels" Was Solaris a microkernel OS? How about SunOS? Irix? DEC OSF/1? HP/UX? Last I checked, they weren't yet all were considered examples of Unix, and all existed before Linux.
- ksk 9y agoThat is great, but I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do with that information? I was merely responding to your inaccurate statement about Linux as it pertains to your opinion on what the "Unix Philosophy" is. Which itself is a mostly irrelevant vague and subjective term that anyone can apply in any way they seem fit, so I suppose there is no point in even arguing over it. Good day !