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What's Wrong with Unix?
aaron240 asks: "When Google published the GLAT (Google Labs Aptitude Test) the Unix question was intriguing. They asked an open-ended question about what is wrong with Unix and how you might fix it. Rob Pike touched on the question in his Slashdot interview from October. What insightful answers did the rest of Slashdot give when they applied to work at Google? To repeat the actual question, 'What's broken with Unix? How would you fix it?'"
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What's the point in having a preview button if you're never going to use it, IDIOT.
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I would have to say that most of the things that *NIX did poorly have been rectified with OS X
I would imagine that the question pertains more to use as a server OS than a easy to use, pretty widgets OS.
If you are a windows person don't try and install BSD. BSD is not designed for you.
Get xandros and install that. It's the ideal distro for windows people.
evil is as evil does
dude.. piping is a ton more powerful than windows clicks.. get over your GUI elitism.
I am the Alpha and the Omega-3
The guy can't install freebsd (a 20 minute process for most people). I reccomended xandros which my dog could install and use.
What's wrong with that?
evil is as evil does
Likewise not standardising some basic data-interchange formats (Even it was just pre-formated ASCII)...
...ALL use the same, consistent, universal plain text format everywhere, in every language. All characters, all the time, in all applications, on all forms of *nix.
Define the standard *nix system text encoding to be UTF-8. Require every tool to assume UTF-8 when no encoding or other modifiers are specified, and make UTF-8 support a requirement for every tool that wants to participate in the chaining/piping operations that are the backbone of *nix.
Terminal programs, terminal servers, shells, system fonts, cut/copy/paste, file system, GUIs, editors,
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