alt Hacker NewsI mean....insert Linux distro of any kind. Yes, hardware support is good, but most distros are otherwise pretty awful in many other regards now.
I mean....insert Linux distro of any kind. Yes, hardware support is good, but most distros are otherwise pretty awful in many other regards now.
To pre-empt any replies: yes, I absolutely prefer BSDs over Linux any day. But even those are flawed and I really think we missed the Symbolics golden era. THAT would be the age of "own and live in the system". OpenBSD gets closest there. At least the codebase is hackable enough.
Linux went off the fucking rails. What the fuck is that over engineered yes command?!
Edit: https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/yes.c
270 loc for a tool that prints "y" in a loop. WTF?!
Meanwhile this exists: https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/usr.bin/yes/yes.c