>…the Linux philosophy is "laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong one. "Do it yourself". That's it.

- torvalds

I did. Thank you for the correction. Linux did, for most of its history, do an admirable job of upholding that philosophy though.

Care to elaborate? Linux is a huge monolithic kernel, isn't this the exact opposite of the UNIX philosophy?

The ecosystem, not the kernel. Linux packages are relatively good about doing one small thing well.