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Old 01-08-2016, 03:03 PM   #2148
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Originally Posted by ApK View Post
...which the UNIX guys used to say was not an OS, but "a brain-dead program loader."

I guess it wasn't big and bloated enough. ;-)
I remember reading Ken Thompson and/or Dennis Ritchie did actually complain about bloat in Unix. One of them said that "X-Windows must be the largest program in existence that doesn't do anything for you."

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"The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you."

-- Ken Thompson

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An operating system is indeed just that: a piece of software to load other pieces of software and manage them. It also needs to provide an easy way of configuring said hardware, and if possible, store the configuration in readable files.

Windows switched from ini-files to the Registry in 1995. Linux users have been bitching at the registry for 20 years. Ironically, now Linux, under Red Hat, is moving to registry-like non-text configuration with Gnome (dconf) and systemd....
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