A while ago I read through the classic Unix Programming Environment from 1984 while trying out the things described on a Debian system. I like the unix philosophy. Ken is a genius. ed is the standard editor. The more I read though, the more I was thinking that this just isn’t how we use computers today. I think Linux is trying to be two things at once. On the one hand it’s sort of a UNIX-clone, on the other hand it’s a black box that our containers and browsers and applications rest on. I’m not sure why we are heading towards less and less UNIX, but it seems to be by popular demand?
A while ago I read through the classic Unix Programming Environment from 1984 while trying out the things described on a Debian system. I like the unix philosophy. Ken is a genius. ed is the standard editor. The more I read though, the more I was thinking that this just isn’t how we use computers today. I think Linux is trying to be two things at once. On the one hand it’s sort of a UNIX-clone, on the other hand it’s a black box that our containers and browsers and applications rest on. I’m not sure why we are heading towards less and less UNIX, but it seems to be by popular demand?