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 Because of this set of ideals that drove Unix development, Unix became incredibly popular amongst academic professionals, hobbyists and developers - all of whom were frustrated by the propriety & monolithic software platforms that were in common use at the time.
-While Unix has largely been superceded by its descendants such as [[diy:linux|Linux]] and **BSD**, its influence has been elephantine. The Unix Philosophy still informs the decisions made by many influential developers & the open-source community to this very day. For [[anonymous:anonops|AnonOps]] engineers, this means you will have to embrace this ideology if you want to be able to make the most efficient use of this software ecosystem.
+While Unix has largely been superceded by its descendants [[diy:linux|Linux]] and **BSD**, its influence has been elephantine. The Unix Philosophy still informs the decisions made by many influential developers & the open-source community to this very day. For [[anonymous:anonops|AnonOps]] engineers, this means you will have to embrace this ideology if you want to be able to make the most efficient use of this software ecosystem.
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 > It is worth noting that the system is totally self-supporting. All UNIX software is maintained under UNIX; likewise, UNIX documents are generated and formatted by the UNIX editor and text formatting program.
-Unix //(like Linux & BSD after it)// is its own development environment and support structure. You don't need fancy third-party IDE's or hardware development kits to debug, modify or expand the system, because it's all part of the operating system or its stock package managers.
+Unix //(like Linux & BSD after it)// is its own development environment and support structure. You don't need fancy third-party IDE's or hardware development kits to debug, modify or expand the system, because it's all part of the operating system. With Linux, you now have internal [[tools:package-manager|package managers]] offering a cornucopia of additional utilities to augment your workflow.
 In [[https://scis.uohyd.ac.in/~apcs/itw/UNIXProgrammingEnvironment.pdf|The Unix Programming Environment]] by Bell Labs veterans [[wp>Brian Kernighan]] and [[wp>Rob Pike]], they explained how this DIY mentality appealed to programmers and professors:

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