[Info-vax] VMS on Raspberry Pi 5

[The Natural Philosopher]

On 17/11/2023 12:39, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> The Natural Philosopher  <tnp at invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> On 17/11/2023 09:36, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>>> There’s still nothing there that demonstrates Linux ever had a goal of
>>> portable system-level tools. I get that you think it should do, but
>>> wanting isn’t getting.
>>
>> Who will bell the cat?
> 
> GNU always has as its primary goal that of providing portable system-level
> tools.  For a long time, Linux was the kernel and GNU provided most of the
> actual environment in the distribution.
> 
> However, at some point the momentum built up until "Linux" as a concept
> took off, and then everybody kind of forgot about GNU and the GNU environment
> and philosophy... then they forgot about the Unix environment and philosophy...
> now it is just a mess.
Engineers don't do philosophy usually (I am the exception) except  ' 
Perfection is the enemy of good enough'

"An engineer can for five bob what any damned fool can do for a quid"

> --scott
> 

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