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I is kind of interesting that FOSS community argues for the spirit of UNIX, when its creators all agree that UNIX as OS model is long overdue.

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Where are the better options? There are plenty of warts, as you'd expect from something that old, but dealing with those warts (or beauty spots) is still the best option I know of.

Yes, the school of though from Xerox PARC and ETHZ workstation systems and safe systems programming languages, with development environment deeply integrated with the OS.

Even Plan 9 and Inferno are more close to that design model than UNIX, hence Rob Pike's complaints about UNIX, how ACME works or Limbo's design.

The better options are struggling for support while the rest of us pour our money on the problematic UNIX, hoping we can 'deal' with its warts. In one word, inertia.

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