http://web.kaleida.com/u/hopkins/unix-haters.html (Einblicke ins Internet, 10/1995)

Unix Haters Handbook

Unix sucks, so we wrote a book called the Unix Haters Handbook:

It even comes with a free Unix Barf Bag!

Edited by Simson Garfinkel, Daniel Weise & Steve Strassmann. With Forward by Donald Norman, Apple Computer, and Anti-Forward by Dennis Ritchie, AT&T Bell Labs.

Mark Lottor and Don Hopkins organized a wonderfully cathartic Unix Haters BOF at Usenix.

Are you fed up with frequent fastboots, ineffective NFS, lousy libraries, creeping C++, broken X-Windows, monsterous Motif, mumbling manual entries, mutilated Makefiles, slimey sendmail, and satanic shells scripts? Come and vent polemic with other victims of Unix, and learn that you are not alone; yourt problems with Unix are not your fault!

Everybody told their favorite Unix Horror Stories, and the best stories won a CDROM of Unix Software to fry in the microwave on stage! Then we put the fried CDROM's on the overhead projector for everyone to appreciate.

Here is some information that will help you hate Unix.

Solaris
- The Worst Job in the World -- sysadmin for the Sun Microsystems Executives.
- What does DOE have to do with SDI?
- Bill Joy Quotes.
- Dear Tog
  - Front Side of Microwaved Catalyst CDROM
  - Back Side of Microwaved Catalyst CDROM
X-Windows
- The X-Windows Disaster, part of a chapter from the UNIX-HATERS handbook.
- Motif Angst Page!!!
- Official Notice, Post Immediately, X-Windows Warning!
- XCalc.gif : State of the art X-Windows calculator user interface.
- XBUGTOOL horror stories.
- Window Manager Flames, ramblings on how to manage windows. One of my hobbies.
- Jojo on UI -- Le Jojo: Fresh 'n' Clean, speaking out to the way you want to live today; American - All American; doing, a bit so, and even more so.
Unix
- smr@magoo.ai.mit.edu: Why you should not use Unix
- SGI Software Usability report tells it like it is, and it's the same everywhere in the Unix industry.
- Terrance McKenna describes a religious sensibility not built on some con game spun out by Unix.
- A Requiem for a Dying Operating System
- Unix History.
- Unix is Dead! Wanna Fight??
- Unix Convention Dweebs, on the RAM_Page!
- Unix Essay Question, dining philosophers not!
- De GNU Manifesto, through the infamous "jive" filter.
Other Unix-Haters