>Not making a GNU tools podcast and then moving onto the GNU software that is not tools.
> GNU software that is not tools.
The innovation in Unix was software as tools. Lisp snobs looked down on Unix and
still couldn't ignore pipes. Kernighan and Plaugher's "Software Tools" book is (despite all the Fortran) a pretty good read.
+bonifartius 𒂼𒄄
@p @Suiseiseki @jeffcliff all the old bell labs adjacent books are pretty good reads. only computer books coming close to be as concise and easily read are books by wirth, imo.
baroque gnu as a system (the classic system, not the modern freedesktop stuff linux is plagued with) is fine for me, the extra functionality is really handy sometimes. plan 9 is good because it opens up new ways of easily doing things. i do have a weak spot for 
, the other bsds are kind of meh to me.
maybe i just like the bazaar better?
(this turned out more rambling than intended xD)
> all the old bell labs adjacent books are pretty good reads.
Yeah, especially :bwksmug:. Great writer.
> baroque gnu as a system (the classic system, not the modern freedesktop stuff linux is plagued with) is fine for me, the extra functionality is really handy sometimes.
I like that their grep is so speedy. Other than that, I'm reasonably happy replacing the whole damn thing with busybox.
> i do have a weak spot for
That was the first BSD that I actually really liked, and it was because of pkgsrc. I think CRUX does a better job with it: it's simpler and faster and more Unix-y.
> (this turned out more rambling than intended xD)
It looked short to me!
@p @Suiseiseki @jeffcliff
gnu never got in my way, i don't mind the extra options some tools have. i use them on occasion, they save my time as i don't have to write some script, i'm lazy, after all!
a really long time ago i ran a small file server on some rigged together hardware using netbsd to store torrented stuff to watch on my flat mates giant tv. worked perfectly fine until the poor 2.5" drive gave up from the 24/7 use 
good times
i felt rambling in the sense of veering off to philosophy about bazaar and cathedral :D
