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67 lines
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# The Design of AbleOS
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## The unix philosophy and why it shouldn't exist
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small is only beautiful if its complete.
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grep for example supports the `-r` flag which should instead be `grep`+`find`
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Everything is not a stream of bytes.
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programs can do multiple things well
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`cat`, `head` and `tail` could all be one program with a flag
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`which head` `which tail` `which cat` should all return the same binary with different flags
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```
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which head == /bin/cat range=0-10
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which tail == /bin/cat reverse_index=true range=0-10
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which cat == /bin/cat
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```
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build a prototype quickly only applies if you are being pressured. do thing quickly then refine
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'choose portability over effeciency' this is a flawed idealogy choose modularity over pure portability
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'store data in flat text files' this leads to a psuedostandardization on KVPair configuration languages that all sit in a flat text file. Instead pick a configuration format that gets loaded into a tree structure
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## File Systems
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### The amount of files inside of a folder
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32765. Why you might ask?
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### Dot files
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`dotfiles` were a mistake given to us by bad programmers mocking better programmers. [link](https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171520/http://xahlee.info/UnixResource_dir/writ/unix_origin_of_dot_filename.html)
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### File name case sensitivity
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Case sensitivity seems like a great idea! But in practice leads to the following filetree
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```
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/kernel
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/Kernel
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/kErnEl
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/KeRnEl
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```
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which is a nightmare and you should be erradicated if you think this is a positive
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provide a display name for files that allows case and save the file as caseless
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### File name character limits
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unix is a plauge upon this earth. name a file `:(){ :|:& };:` and try listing it. You have lost access to your terminal.
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if you defined a sane method of listing files and allowing programs to provide the OS a standard method of providing argument suggestions and being aware you would never run into this issue
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## CLI vs GUI
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Graphics are not your enemy unix lovers. You mustn't be stuck in 1981. Times have changed! You can have a graphical shell enviroment. SGI Irix was aware of this in 1988, not perfect of course but 7 years after dos is an impressive leap.
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FFMPEG??? Why no gui? Give me a good git ui
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### Emails plain text
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Unix believes in plain text emails. Quotes are `>`
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### Unix Wizards and Instability
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[Do not meddle in the affairs of Unix, for it is subtle and quick to anger.]
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### Unix why are your mouse a file?
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This list is incomplete
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`/dev/input/event1` The PS2 Mouse
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`/dev/input/psaux` The PS2 Mouse
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`/dev/input/psmouse` The PS2 Mouse
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`/dev/input/mice` The Not(?) PS2 Mouse I think?
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`/dev/input/mouse0` The not Not(?) ps2 mouse? First usb mouse I think?
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`/dev/input/usbhid` USB mice (should be autodetected)
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`/dev/input/sermouse` Most serial mice
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`/dev/input/logibm` Bus mouse connected to Logitech adapter card
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`/dev/input/inport` Bus mouse connected to ATI or Microsoft InPort card
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`/dev/input/by-id/usb-<usbid here>` A usb mouse via its id
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I propose a unified system for input via a Device Tree of sorts |