From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: imp@bsdimp.com (Warner Losh) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 09:49:45 -0600 Subject: [TUHS] daemons are not to be exorcised In-Reply-To: References: <94366db0-293b-214a-23a3-c7c895e4d30b@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> <98451f10-9b1b-049b-61ed-fd73586572fd@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> <20180321023125.GC6850@thunk.org> Message-ID: On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 9:45 AM, Andy Kosela wrote: > > > On Wednesday, March 21, 2018, Warner Losh wrote: > >> >> >> On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 8:18 AM, Paul Winalski >> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 10:31 PM, Theodore Y. Ts'o >>> wrote: >>> > >>> > On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 10:40:44PM -0600, Grant Taylor via TUHS wrote: >>> > > >>> > > 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." >>> >> >> "Perfection is Achieved Not When There Is Nothing More to Add, But When >> There Is Nothing Left to Take Away" Antoine de Saint-Exupery >> >> > 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. > > 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: