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It's mainly used as a reminder what we should do better before World Domination with Voyager [tm] | It's mainly used as a reminder what we should do better before World Domination with Voyager [tm] | ||
* Keyboard Layout in Xorg. Why does it have to be so hard... | * Keyboard Layout in Xorg. Why does it have to be so hard... | ||
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* case sensitive filenames (what is this good for ?) | * case sensitive filenames (what is this good for ?) | ||
* confusing directory tree with too many standard directories (requires too much knowledge, better use less standard dirs, better use env vars to point to certain directories !!!) | * confusing directory tree with too many standard directories (requires too much knowledge, better use less standard dirs, better use env vars to point to certain directories !!!) | ||
== What I like about UNIX == | |||
Why not thinking also about the good items: (possibly we make another page of this?): | |||
* boot/driver messages logged to a file (won-der-ful ! want this!) | |||
* symbolic links (not implemented as files like in wincrap, but in the filesystem, or maybe with FUSE) | |||
* mount partitions to empty directories (but: better go for FUSE to have something TVFS alike) | |||
* piping output of commands into env vars (shell feature) | |||
Revision as of 00:38, 4 August 2007
The Why I hate UNIX Page
This is a page which contains random entries about what sucks in Unix, weather it is Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris...
It's mainly used as a reminder what we should do better before World Domination with Voyager [tm]
- Keyboard Layout in Xorg. Why does it have to be so hard...
- SSH & Terminals/TERMCAP: Aaaaaaaaaaargh (backspace, delete...)
- copy/paste: Qt way, GTK way, X way - copying highlighted text to the clipboard is very annoying
- unix commands like cp and mv (cla loves the good old CMD commands!)
- no consistent GUI concept (lets stick to CUA and/or anything advanced to that, possibly enhance them !)
- drivers or settings compiled into the kernel (uurg - stoneage)
- mount a floppy/CD(/USB stick ?) to access it
- no drive letters or something adequate (something like this must be there for those being used to it)
- forward slashes in file names (this is a killer for those being used to backslashes)
- case sensitive filenames (what is this good for ?)
- confusing directory tree with too many standard directories (requires too much knowledge, better use less standard dirs, better use env vars to point to certain directories !!!)
What I like about UNIX
Why not thinking also about the good items: (possibly we make another page of this?):
- boot/driver messages logged to a file (won-der-ful ! want this!)
- symbolic links (not implemented as files like in wincrap, but in the filesystem, or maybe with FUSE)
- mount partitions to empty directories (but: better go for FUSE to have something TVFS alike)
- piping output of commands into env vars (shell feature)