Re:BSDs or Illumos may be good alternatives to Linux (2017)
by bayindirh on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @01:15PM
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As an (un)written rule, UNIX commands are mostly silent, and output something if something went wrong. This is one of the things that systemd got right I think.
Yes, it feels awkward at first, but systemd's behavior is not wrong.
edit: oh, downvoted, OK. This is actually an outcome of rule of silence, which is part of the UNIX philosophy [0].
Yes, it feels awkward at first, but systemd's behavior is not wrong.
edit: oh, downvoted, OK. This is actually an outcome of rule of silence, which is part of the UNIX philosophy [0].
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy#Rule_of_Silenc...