Article DescriptionSome of this is just plain snarkyness but some of the complaints are valid, especially the case of system calls eating up resources but sheesh -- 'puters are soo fast these days that this is almost a non-issue... Still, I would class this as geek mental popcorn -- the author doesn't even suggest a successor to UNIX although he tears it down. LINUX is awesome on a decent machine. We run a mix here, Windows 2000 on personal desktops and LINUX on servers. Posted by DaveH at November 8, 2005 10:00 PM
UNIX was a terrific workhorse for its time, but eventually the old nag needs to be put out to pasture. David Chisnall argues that it's time to retire UNIX in favor of modern systems with a lot more horsepower.
My Powerbook is a _wonderful_ UNIX machine.
Switching from Win2k to UNIX was one of the best decisions I've made (in terms of productivity) in the last 5 years.
Posted by: Alex Hutton at November 9, 2005 7:27 AM