A lot of it was fair criticism at the time. Linux fixed some of what was wrong. Having a good sudo config mostly resolves the problem of having one superuser account, and big, multiuser systems are a lot less common now, anyway. X’s network transparency features aren’t that useful in modern computing contexts, either, though I have found a few over the years.
But mostly, it’s because the landscape changed from a hundred Unix vendors vs a bunch of other OSen, to now where it’s Windows vs Linux vs OSX. By that comparison, the two with Unix-derived history look well thought out.
(This also implies that NextStep was the one old Unix vendor that has survived in a meaningful way. I don’t think anyone would have guessed that 30 years ago.)
80s programmers hated Unix, btw. Look up Unix Haters Handbook, it’s a free and funny read
A lot of it was fair criticism at the time. Linux fixed some of what was wrong. Having a good
sudoconfig mostly resolves the problem of having one superuser account, and big, multiuser systems are a lot less common now, anyway. X’s network transparency features aren’t that useful in modern computing contexts, either, though I have found a few over the years.But mostly, it’s because the landscape changed from a hundred Unix vendors vs a bunch of other OSen, to now where it’s Windows vs Linux vs OSX. By that comparison, the two with Unix-derived history look well thought out.
(This also implies that NextStep was the one old Unix vendor that has survived in a meaningful way. I don’t think anyone would have guessed that 30 years ago.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook
Didn’t knew this. It has 360 pages, wow!
EDIT:
hehe
They also hated their local sysadmin. BOFH still holds up in a few key ways.
Thanks. I didn’t know there was a real band called “The Pipi Pickers” and I might have lived on happily without that knowledge.
Good thing GNU’s not Unix
Unix does so many stupid things and we’re still stuck with some of them. Especially the terminal section still applies today.
Here we go
I prefer the MIT link, it’s faster 😁
https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf