Unix-Haters Handbook Available Online

prostoalex writes "The Unix-Haters Handbook, publication year 1994, is now available online for free as a single PDF file. Apparently some suburban Seattle company has agreed to host this 3.5MB file on its servers. The anti-foreword is written by no other but Dennis Ritchie, who proclaims: 'Here is my metaphor: your book is a pudding stuffed with apposite observations, many well-conceived. Like excrement, it contains enough undigested nuggets of nutrition to sustain life for some. But it is not a tasty pie: it reeks too much of contempt and of envy.'" This is what should happen to more out-of-print books.

Comments

Re:OK, so?

[Patrick Lewis]

Click on the "Now Online For Free!!" Not gonna link, cause that's just mean.

Mac OS X is not UNIX

[yerricde]

I guess he really can't escape Unix.

Mac OS X's low level follows much of the Single UNIX Specification, but it is not a UNIX® brand system.

Re:Windows Hater Book, Entry 1

[Dunkirk]

"The question is moot!"

How can we be talking about such trivial things as computer science when the Bush administration has, in only two years, turned our societal utopia into the wasteland of pollution, disease, and poverty it has now become?

Seriously, though, you must have a non-trivially-sized chip on your shoulder to turn this into a rant about Bush. If you're serious about *character*, and not *politics*, then I sure hope you were turning your /. comments into rants about the only impeached president a few years ago...

I Hurd it on the Grape Vine

[porkchop_d_clown]

Not much longer would I run WINE.

I Hurd it on the Grape Vine

I've rebooted for the last time!