Re:The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Unix Legacy (by Rob ...
by andeka on Thursday May 07, 2009 @12:17AM
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1. What is the best thing about Unix?
A: The community.
2. What is the worst thing about Unix?
A: That there are so many communities.
Learning the insides of things is what got me into UNIX. I wanted to know how hardware and operating systems worked together. Rooted in academia and science, the community and culture drew me in, It is a problem solvers platform. You will find many a startup trying to make their dream come true by hacking together their idea in C/Linux. Microsoft may develop a great business application platform. But if you want to learn and experiment with new computer science concepts you have UNIX.
Learning the insides of things is what got me into UNIX. I wanted to know how hardware and operating systems worked together. Rooted in academia and science, the community and culture drew me in, It is a problem solvers platform. You will find many a startup trying to make their dream come true by hacking together their idea in C/Linux. Microsoft may develop a great business application platform. But if you want to learn and experiment with new computer science concepts you have UNIX.