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by hulitu 337 days ago
> What have we accomplished in the last 35 years?

Just do an ldd on a random program on your machine. Or check how many libraries are doing the same thing (SSL, jpeg, NSS, etc).

If you are really brave, you can compare a "make menuconfig" between linux 2.4.x and linux 4.x.

Do we need all this ?