Linux and the Unix Philosophy

Syndrome” abounded as major factions from the AT&T and Berkeley Unix

communities bickered over which Unix implementation would dominate.

Committees such as the Open Software Foundation were formed to try to

convince users that it was “open interfaces,” not the operating system philoso

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phy, that truly mattered. Many implementations of both Unix flavors became

fat and slow.

As the next major implementation of the Unix philosophy in a field of

little-known systems that implement that philosophy, Linux exhibits many

characteristics of a Third System. People who are tired of the bloat and

bickering in the Unix world have found much joy in it. The best