What is the UNIX philosophy? No, not "everything is a file". I mean the actual philosophy. Rigid modulation? A perfect blend of kernel and userland? Absolutely secure? A combination of all these things?
The state of UNIX today is so sad to me. We have Linux and BSD, the main free *nix's. We have macOS, a powerful, beautiful, but locked-down *nix. QNX, Minix, etc are unique but out-of-reach. Redox is political, and HURD seems like more of a hate-fuck than a love-child.
Within Linux, there is so many different philosophies and programs and dependces and forks that you either have to be a masochistic or a blind sheep to enjoy it.
Alternatives, like Windows and Haiku, are proprietary or in early beta.
Clearly, there's SOMETHING about Unix that makes it better than everything else. Linux may be the best of all the evils, but it's still evil. At its core, is UNIX good, or evil. It is a case of "hating the creator because of the creation"? Or is rotten from the core, like grafting branches onto a dead tree?
Is the problem of fragmentation and shitty programming answerable?
Most importantly, what is UNIX?
UNIX
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It's nothing more than taking ideas of simplicity and slapping a brand name on them. To add insult to injury, it doesn't even produce simple software.
What?
You mean the only blend?
The only way to really resecure a UNIX machine is to wipe it and reinstall from scratch, so no.
I agree it's sad.
It was free and too many people never learned about better systems and eventually inmates ran the asylum. There's nothing better about it in terms of merit.
Yes, but that requires a coherent system, which UNIX will never be. It still uses X for graphics, because it never had its own solution, and so there's no native anything there. It doesn't provide solutions for so many things and never will.
UNIX is a blight on computing.
user, you make a lot statements. You might even be right. However I must reprimanded you for a) not providing specifics (aside from X) and b) not giving specific solutions.
being able to pipe programs to other programs which alows a bunch of small programs and utilities that do one job and that job well to be connected together to do a big job. not to say this is actually how it turned out.
user, do you think this could be realized? What would that require?
stop worrying about backwards compatibility and rewrite a bunch of it. it's mostly the users and new coders trying to make it windows when it's not and never supposed to be.
What did he mean by this?
It does work well until you slap a bunch of non-conforming software into it as replacements for the original software. GNU
Remember, those utilities were designed by a handful of people who worked intimately with each other for years if not decades, so they knew various nuances to their work.
GNU was a haphazard result that tried to emulate what UNIX did, but remember, GNU's Not UNIX. That's why simple scripting in Linux is so broken.
The only UNIX you listed was BSD.
The solution to the unix question is plan 9
u must be the most schizo dumbfuck after terry_the_negro.
u have a prob with linux, unix, mac... maybe us should stick to using the postal service!!! :D:D:D:D:D