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We're in a thread about OpenBSD, a Unix that keeps literally the entire OS (except for ports) in one repo, and ships them together. So this is a strange critic
by dralley 5y ago
We're in a thread about OpenBSD, a Unix that keeps literally the entire OS (except for ports) in one repo, and ships them together.
So this is a strange criticism to make.
- csande17 5y agoYou're right that Linux is pretty much the only operating system where users can mix and match core system components. That's precisely why people get so mad about systemd! If I wanted to use an operating system where all the components were tightly coupled and made by a single vendor, I'd use Windows, or macOS, or a BSD. (In fact I do use those operating systems when that's what I want.) But I would also like for other kinds of systems to exist in the world. I downloaded Linux because I wanted to use an operating system that _wasn't_ macOS!
- dralley 5y agoThey are free to make that criticism but they should do it without invoking "the Unix philosophy" which Linux has never adhered to. Unix never had interchangable components like that.
- pjmlp 5y agoSpecially because "the Unix philosophy" as preached by Linux afficionados never happened in real UNIX, it keeps being preached as some kind of cargo cult by people that weren't even around during the UNIX wars heyday.