@bonifartius @Suiseiseki @jeffcliff

> all the old bell labs adjacent books are pretty good reads.

Yeah, especially :bwksmug:. Great writer.

> baroque gnu as a system (the classic system, not the modern freedesktop stuff linux is plagued with) is fine for me, the extra functionality is really handy sometimes.

I like that their grep is so speedy. Other than that, I'm reasonably happy replacing the whole damn thing with busybox.

> i do have a weak spot for :netbsd:

That was the first BSD that I actually really liked, and it was because of pkgsrc. I think CRUX does a better job with it: it's simpler and faster and more Unix-y.

> (this turned out more rambling than intended xD)

It looked short to me!