Re: [TUHS] UNIX of choice these days?

On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 7:36 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote: This is an interesting point (and I think TUHS relevant): I've long held that the powers-that-be in what has become the "Unix" world have no more than a cursory interest in the Unix philosophy. The reasons for this are many. Part of it is lack of exposure to any other way of doing things (in particular, lack of exposure to a canonically Unix way of doing things). I've lost track of the number of people I've tried to show Plan 9-ish ways of doing things to and the pushback I've gotten: "Filesystems?! That'll NEVER work!" "But look...it's working right here." "Bah. That's just some goof-ball research toy." Grrr.... Part of it is that the problems have shifted out from underfoot: Unix was created in a place and at a time where a certain class of problem was important; it solved those sorts of problems (and did damn well at doing so). And while many of those problems are still important today, entirely new classes of problems are also (if not more) important these days and Unix did not grow to gracefully accommodate those problems. Maybe those problems shouldn't matter, but they do; oh well. The irony, of course, is that Unix basically "won". It's just that it had to stop being Unix to do so. "He who stares into the abyss...." - Dan C.