*nix is clearly some IT equivalent of a very powerful idea. Part of good tooling is being able to point back to a history of stability and success. The other hu

*nix is clearly some IT equivalent of a very powerful idea. Part of good tooling is being able to point back to a history of stability and success. The other huge player, Microsoft, somewhat famously is tied to an unchanging user interface. I think this illustrates my point. But there clearly is growth and change in important places - and more still needed in others. It surprises me that ZFS isn’t the default more places or something to replace it whole cloth. It feels like a good thing that I type this on an iOS device - descended from the BSDs but you’d never know from first glance.