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minus-squareHiTekRedNek@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down2·4 months agoThe UNIX philosophy is “Everything is a file.” systemd doesn’t follow that, with its binary logs and stuff. Just part of why I keep going back to FreeBSD.
minus-squarethedeadwalking4242@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down4·4 months agoReplace everything is a file with “everything is a byte stream with a file handle” and your there. There is A LOT of Unix that doesn’t stick to the convention of “everything is a text file” and for good reason.
The UNIX philosophy is “Everything is a file.”
systemd doesn’t follow that, with its binary logs and stuff.
Just part of why I keep going back to FreeBSD.
Replace everything is a file with “everything is a byte stream with a file handle” and your there.
There is A LOT of Unix that doesn’t stick to the convention of “everything is a text file” and for good reason.