Modern Linux distributions don't tend to honor "The UNIX philosophy" is a common theme these days, or so it is said by a vocal group. The GNU tools tend to be

Modern Linux distributions don't tend to honor "The UNIX philosophy" is a common theme these days, or so it is said by a vocal group. The GNU tools tend to be more feature rich then many of their counterparts, often with performance advantages and usability but more is more and more code tends to mean more bugs. Fedora is in many ways the leader of this, it and Ubuntu are symbolic to those folks. The irony here is that they can go fork all of this stuff, it's not like none of it has forked before, if they don't like redhat they can run something else. Getting passed off and forking is also the UNIX way