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Right, without back-compat, any system trying to gain marketshare is domed. ...but Linux has chroot, symlinks, hardlinks, and everything in-between - it's enti
by DaiPlusPlus 3y ago
Right, without back-compat, any system trying to gain marketshare is domed.
...but Linux has chroot, symlinks, hardlinks, and everything in-between - it's entirely possible to design a Linux environment where the clutter and warts of back-compat are only visible to the users and programs that need to see them.
- mananaysiempre 3y agoI’d point in the direction of Nixpkgs’s buildFHSEnv, but unfortunately Nixpkgs has its own layers and layers of cruft (being more than fifteen years old by now).
- Santosh83 3y agoGoboLinux attempts to reinvent the filesystem organisation for Linux while maintaining full compatibility.
- sonicanatidae 3y agoWith success?