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https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf
by azinman2 5y ago
https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf
- user_7832 5y agoCould you (or someone) summarize some important points? I greatly appreciate the link but I can't read 360 pages right now on a topic I have almost no background in.
- adultSwim 5y agoCheck out the table of contents
- johnisgood 5y agoI glanced over it. Some of these things are the reason for why I like UNIX.
- azinman2 5y agoI think you should properly read it and see if you still agree. Granted it’s all very dated, so the idea of poor stability and taking up a lot of RAM is no longer an issue, but if you see what came before it and the comparisons you might wonder how we ended up where we are across all commercial operating systems.
- user_7832 5y agoI did, but I don't understand most of the technical stuff about OSes :/
- phist_mcgee 5y agoThe final boss of RTFM
- mindcrime 5y agoAs for me? I switched to the Mac. No more grep, no more piping, no more SED scripts. Well, that didn't age well.
- pjmlp 5y agoActually it kind of did. Yes macOS is now a certified UNIX, however just like its NeXTSTEP predecessor, its UNIXisms are meant to bring people into the platform, not to get them out of it. Every single user experience that actually matters to Apple customers lives outside UNIX, relying on Objective-C frameworks, and nowadays Swift ones as well. This is the mindset that those that buy Apple products as shinny UNIX keep failing to grasp, and then start blogging all those posts about going back to BSD/Linux, which they should have done in first place to start with, sponsoring BSD/Linux hardware OEMs.