From 718e797d443ddde88d045d9ce6583fd1632e0e90 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sadeep Madurange Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2025 20:57:15 +0800 Subject: Remove Unix desktop post. --- _archive/desktop-unix.md | 43 ------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 43 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 _archive/desktop-unix.md (limited to '_archive/desktop-unix.md') diff --git a/_archive/desktop-unix.md b/_archive/desktop-unix.md deleted file mode 100644 index 2ae7c33..0000000 --- a/_archive/desktop-unix.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,43 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: Unix-like operating systems -date: 2025-09-21 -author: Wickramage Don Sadeep Madurange -layout: post ---- - -The Unix operating system project appears to have started in 1969 at Bell Labs. -Something resembling contemporary Unix-like systems may have been developed in -1973 when Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson rewrote the Unix kernel in C. Both of -these important milestones predate me by some years. Nonetheless, operating -systems that preserve the Unix philosophy have survived. Linux and OpenBSD are -two such systems that I am personally familiar with. - -The following is a screenshot of my Arch Linux setup from 2020. It uses X -display server and i3 for window management. The urxvt terminal emulator is -made translucent using the Xcompmgr compositor. - -![Arch Linux](linux.png) - -The following is a screenshot of my OpenBSD laptop from 2024: - -![OpenBSD i3](openbsd.png) - -This degree of customization is impossible with commercial operating systems. -The vendor sets firm boundaries about how the machine should be used. - -The conceptual elegance and architectural supremacy of Unix-like operating -systems lie in how programs developed independently come together to accomplish -complex tasks. For instance, to read an HTML email, I may use Mutt, an email -client. Mutt would request credentials for my email account from Pass, a -password manager, which in turn uses GPG to decrypt them before handing them -over to Mutt. Mutt would then authenticate and fetch the email and delegate the -rendering of the email to Lynx a web browser. The chaining of different tools -resembles a sofware symphony. - -Each of these programs were developed by different programmers (at times -decades apart), without an explicit intent for them to interoperate. -The interoperability is a direct consequence of the Unix engineering -philosophy. Engineers generations apart have kept that tradition alive (like -a cathedral built by many generations). - -Files: [dotfiles.tar.gz](dotfiles.tar.gz) -- cgit v1.2.3