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But that book is a waste. It is just MIT dunning-krugerites who were salty that LISP machines never took off. When it comes to real life, the bell labs approa
by krautburglar 9mo ago
But that book is a waste. It is just MIT dunning-krugerites who were salty that LISP machines never took off. When it comes to real life, the bell labs approach won, and for several good reasons. Not "worse is better" (another dunning-krugerite cope), but "less is more."
- prathamtharwani 9mo agoBut your comment is a waste. It is just HN dunning-krugerites who were salty that the UNIX way never took off. When it comes to real life, the Poettering approach won, and for several good reasons.
- krautburglar 9mo agoThe UNIX way is still doing fine on OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, Alpine, Gentoo... Poetteringware only won on the distros selling support contracts. "Fixing" what wasn't broken is great for those businesses.
- fsflover 9mo ago> for several good reasons Such as money from M$?
- pjmlp 9mo agoTurns out free beer is great, even when it is warm.
- its_magic 9mo agoThe only good beer is warm beer. If the beer tastes like shit when it's warm, it's not good beer.
- krautburglar 9mo agoFrom your perspective, what would be an "OS done right"? I have a running list of things I would change in Unix, but replacing sysvinit with systemd's one-ring-to-rule-them-all would not be on it.