Unix top 5 or 10 (was: Linux Lunch and Learns...)

[Robert Citek <rwcitek@alum.calberkeley.org>]

On Friday, April 2, 2004, at 08:23  AM, Ken Hagan wrote:
> If you're talking mostly to programmers and trying to evangelize 
> Linux, perhaps
> you could start by evanglizing UNIX in general?  Explaining how 
> everything is
> treated like a file, toolchains, pipes, the things that make UNIX rawk 
> from the
> command line.

If you were to summarize the top 5 or 10 most important principles 
about UNIX, what would they be?

1) everything is treated like a file.
2) data is a stream which allows for pipes and redirects.
3) small programs that do a few things and do them well.
4) a core (kernel) and an API (system calls) with which to talk to the 
core.
5) a shell to tie the first four items together. (insert Tolkien quote 
about a ring to "bind them")

Others?

Regards,
- Robert


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