Re: [gentoo-dev] The Beauty of Unix

2016-02-10 Thread brettrsears
Pp Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Gregory Woodbury Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 14:30:56 To: Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] The Beauty of Unix I agree with Paul Varner's comment. There are places where a tight-cou

Re: [gentoo-dev] The Beauty of Unix

2016-02-10 Thread Gregory Woodbury
I agree with Paul Varner's comment. There are places where a tight-coupling makes sense (the kernel) and places where it doesn't (system admin and userspace development.) My objections to the systemd plans is philosophical. There are some folks who want to make Linux into a Desktop System environ

Re: [gentoo-dev] The Beauty of Unix

2016-02-10 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Paul Varner wrote: > On 2/9/16 7:44 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> >> I thought the whole beauty of unix was the everything-is-a-file design? > > No, the beauty of Unix has always been the architectural philosophy of > loose-coupling of the components of the system. >