Comment What is it? (Score 1) 826
OK, I guess I am sort of answering my own question.. Checking the wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
it's the init process. That page also describes that a bunch of other stuff was merged into it.
I have no idea who this is, but on the 2nd page of the quoted article, there is this quoted:
Mike Gancarz sums up the Unix philosophy:
1) Small is beautiful.
2) Make each program do one thing well...and a bunch more...
The funny thing is, I agree with those in theory... but in actual practice (yes, I'm alluding to the cliche), pine/alpine is one of the best UNIX programs around.. it's "friendly" (unlike most UNIX programs), but ALSO configurable as heck for those of us who can't stand to use its defaults (e.g. its built in editor)... and you can just move the binaries around, unlike most UNIX programs.. So it's basically a big huge program, comparatively.
(trn's another example of a huge program that does a lot of things well.)