Re:The Rise of Worse Is Better (1991)
by digi_owl on Friday March 30, 2018 @02:14PM
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Early Linux success vs the morass of "perfection" that is now plaguing its userspace.
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What do you mean by that?
Not the op, but the post is probably referring to systemd.
There are a few rough edges on classic init, syslog, dns, x11 session management, unix fs permissions, etc, etc.
Systemd is a “better,” “principled,” rewrite of all that stuff from scratch. It is being done in a monolithic way (i.e., shoved down users’ throats), and none of the replacements for the subsystems are actually ready for primetime use (and probably never will be).
This seems to be a great thing for the BSD’s, except that Linux desktop environments no longer run their properly.
Personally, I attribute this more to the widely-adopted, ever-popular CADT software development process(), but I don’t disagree with the OP’s point.