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UNIX philosophy. You mean the UNIX philosophy.

• japanoise 7y ago
  >…the Linux philosophy is "laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong one. "Do it yourself". That's it. - torvalds
• smt88 7y ago
  I did. Thank you for the correction. Linux did, for most of its history, do an admirable job of upholding that philosophy though.
  • sunaurus 7y ago
    Care to elaborate? Linux is a huge monolithic kernel, isn't this the exact opposite of the UNIX philosophy?
    • smt88 7y ago
      The ecosystem, not the kernel. Linux packages are relatively good about doing one small thing well.