[TUHS] daemons are not to be exorcised

[imp@bsdimp.com (Warner Losh)]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 9:45 AM, Andy Kosela <akosela at andykosela.com> wrote:

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> On Wednesday, March 21, 2018, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 8:18 AM, Paul Winalski <paul.winalski at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 10:31 PM, Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso at mit.edu>
>>> wrote:
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>>> > On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 10:40:44PM -0600, Grant Taylor via TUHS wrote:
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>>> > > I think many people working on Linux are genuinely trying to make it
>>> better.
>>> > > They just have no conceptual history to guide them.
>>> >
>>> > There are also ways in which Unix is just simply deficient.
>>> >
>>> I think a corollary of Albert Einstein's aphorism regarding theories
>>> applies here: "Features should be as simple as possible, but no
>>> simpler."
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>> "Perfection is Achieved Not When There Is Nothing More to Add, But When
>> There Is Nothing Left to Take Away" Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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> There are two kinds of people in this world.  Those that think that adding
> more is better (more is more approach), and those that think the complete
> opposite (less is more approach).  The second type is usually associated
> with minimalistic philosophy and approach to life.  I believe Ken and the
> team were the masters of minimalism.
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> Today the only current OS that I can think of that still adores this
> minimalistic approach is probably only OpenBSD.  Even its installer is as
> minimal as you can get... I really like it.
>

I'm not so sure about that. It's installer is minimal, but there's still
lots of bloat in it's kernel...

Warner
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