The author is rather inconsistent here. On one hand, he's opposed to the contemporary Desktop Linux philosophy which tries to poorly imitate the monolithic sta

The author is rather inconsistent here. On one hand, he's opposed to the contemporary Desktop Linux philosophy which tries to poorly imitate the monolithic stacks of OS X and Windows, but he also brutally lambasts the innovations behind Plan 9, as apparently for all of his derision towards modern computing, he finds starting from first principles to be anathema for whatever reason. His proposed solution is not given, but it's hinted towards Solaris/illumos. So... a System V Unix. A well designed and modern SysV Unix with facilities that other Unices haven't implemented as well, that is certain, but his complaint that our hardware and software is stuck in old decades is ironic as a result.