10 Things I Hate About (U)NIX
In 1971, the UNIX Time Sharing system, First Edition was released. This simple operating system allowed multiple users to use a single, low-end minicomputer. It became popular, largely due to the fact that the source code was available for free to universities, which produced a generation of graduates who grew up learning UNIX.
Rather than developing their own operating systems, a lot of companies licensed the UNIX source code and produced their own derivatives to run on their hardware. Eventually, UNIX replaced most commercial operating systems.
In the last decade, free clones and derivatives of UNIX have started to take over from the old-guard UNIX systems. In terms of source code, these versions share very little, if anything, with their predecessors, but in terms of design and philosophy a lot can be traced back to the original roots.
