Poettering: systemd for Administrators, Part XII [LWN.net]

Poettering: systemd for Administrators, Part XII

Posted Jan 23, 2012 12:28 UTC (Mon) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183)
In reply to: Poettering: systemd for Administrators, Part XII by drag
Parent article: Poettering: systemd for Administrators, Part XII

> Linux fails because:
> 1. It makes it harder to write applications because you have to deal with distribution's BS before you can reach your audience [...]

(Slightly) off-topic, but I always find the contrast between the Unix philosophy of "do one thing and do it well" and the Linux distributions philosophy of "try to do everything people could ever need" rather interesting.

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Poettering: systemd for Administrators, Part XII

Posted Jan 23, 2012 20:20 UTC (Mon) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

the Unix philosophy is to have many tools that can be used together, each of which is designed to "do one thing well"

the linux distros generally go a good job of packaging all these tools together so that users can "do everything they ever need"

there's no inherent conflict between these two pieces.

"desktop environments" tend to break these philosophies badly, at both ends.