What is wrong with Unix/linux
- by John Smith
This is a genuine question motivated by Ideal Operating System
When I moved from DOS to Linux in the late 90s it was an eye opener for me. Long file names, arbitrarily many extensions etc...
Now I look at Linux and Unix and see all sorts of issues. Here are things I see which could be fixed.
Too much depends on root, and rootly powers cannot be voluntarily delegated over several users. (I would love to give up my power to manager printers and delegate the job to another account)
File permissions are very limited, and there is not much metadata to go with files.
The "everything is a file" metaphor is not true, Plan 9 gets it right(er).