Re: The "Unix Philosophy 2020" document

From: Casper Ti. Vector <caspervector_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2019 18:35:15 +0800

On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 04:29:13PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
> What is slew?

>From the Gentoo Forums post: "[the example] also uses slew, a flexible
framework that thinly (~500 core SLOC, including ~200 for core service
definitions) wraps around s6/s6-rc to offer some features commonly
requested by distributions".

And from the mail [1] on this list where the name "slew" was given for
the first time: "hint for the etymology: note how "6" is pronounced in
Chinese ;)"

[1] <https://skarnet.org/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?2:mss:1948>.

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