Wrote a few more chapters, and boom. It's 23:30. The /Forks and Wars/ chapter of my Unix History is going smoothly. However there is so much info that would make the text incomprehensable, I think I'll add "bonus" subpages, like timeline.
Which Unix forks would you consider as the most important/noteable except of BSD, Solaris and Xenix? Have you used others maybe?
@nixCraft Seems like lots of bad/unlucky decisions along the way leading to much lost time. And QT with all of that migration works, seems like quite the limiting factor.
@nixCraft The example with cat is less efficient (one extra process), but it is more composable (if you wanted to put something before the grep, you could)
I have a #unix question. I’m running #Slackware. I log into my machine from the console and use startx to start X11. By default, my terminal app (urxvt) does not start a login shell. I know I can configure it to do this. The question is: should I? And why?
Talking to someone about git's UI, and they compared it to vim and GUI IDEs.
When replying with how vi was basically a GUI of its time over more CLI editing with ed/ex ...
it struck me that it is perhaps glaring that we don't have a "vgit": A more visual/TUI tool that supplanted and erased git from memory apart from the "git compatibility mode" still available in "vgit".
I may be off here, but is this emblematic of the cultish worship of unix tooling in the "linux" era?