• EddyBot@feddit.de
    6·
    11 months ago

    this comment shows how the word of mouth actually distorted the argument

    its not the linux philosophy but one sentence of the unix philosophy (linux is not unix)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy

    Make each program do one thing well. To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new “features”

    besides being over 40 years old at this point

    fun fact the linux kernel would actually not really fit this since it is an monolithic kernel

    • fogetaboutit@programming.dev
      2·
      11 months ago

      Ah sorry, unix not linux. I didnt think of that before, it seems so obvious that linux kernel isnt doing one thing well, it does everything ever, kind of well.