Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 6th Nov 2005 11:50 UTC
UNIX was a terrific workhorse for its time, but eventually the old nag needs to be put out to pasture. David Chisnall argues that it's time to retire UNIX in favor of modern systems with a lot more horsepower. "UNIX has a lot of strengths, but like any other design it's starting to show its age. Some of the points listed in this article apply less to some UNIX-like systems, some apply more."
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RE[2]: Who cares anyway ?
by hobgoblin on Sun 6th Nov 2005 14:28
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RE[3]: Who cares anyway ?
by Temcat on Sun 6th Nov 2005 14:57
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Absolutely. This is why I'm glad the author is writing these sorts of things even though I disagree with him on probably 60% of his items.
There are things like meta-data in filesystems and more io streams on the shell that I'd like to see!
Not to mention, some sort of awareness that other types of data than text exist. This is, IMO, probably the worst problem with Unix today. It is only aware that text exists.. Simple things like a stronger clipboard in X11 would go a long way to fixing this for 99% of the people it affects (not many people are going to be worried about demuxing video over std streams, and about three guys will want to send their demuxed stream straight into a video player and audio player).
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It's just nonsense to propagate this waste of bits.
Actually it might be important. It's common for people to not be able to see outside of the box they are used to. I think it is important to be reminded from time to time that there are other ways to do it and that the ones we have might not be the best.