From the article: When was the last time you looked at /etc and thought - "I honestly know what every single file in here is". Or for example had a thought "Eac

From the article: When was the last time you looked at /etc and thought - "I honestly know what every single file in here is". Or for example had a thought "Each file in here is configuration changes that I made". I first started administering Linux servers and workstations in 1998, and /etc/ was already full of scores of config files, including such horrors as X86Config and M4-generated sendmail.cf files. (And sendmail.cf itself dates from the 80s.) There were conf.d directories and mysterious networking configuration files, nearly all of which were supplied by the OS. In other words, this frog was thoroughly boiled 20 years ago. If the world you're looking for ever existed, it would have been back when VAXes still roamed the earth.