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by progman 2455 days ago
> Every time I see the X11 protocol, I realize that the UNIX philosophy (everything is a file) is dead.

As "dead" as Android (which is based on Linux, a Unix clone) and OSX (a BSD Unix) and iOS (child of OSX)? Why does Microsoft vibrantly support Linux in Windows 10 (an abomination to Ex-CEO Steve Ballmer) if Unix is "dead"?

I think the very opposite is true. Some developers realized that the KISS principle (including the Unix philosophy where everything is a stream of bytes) is not a bad idea after all.

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-architecture-is-...
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fao_ 2455 days ago
Support of Linux != support of UNIX and the UNIX Philosophy.

Lennart Poettering, who is the mind behind Systemd, Pulseaudio, and a lot of major new technologies explicitly disavows the UNIX philosophy.

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