The UNIX way

What's so cool about the UNIX philosophy? What would a heavy UNIX philosophy operating system look like? What is the most heavy UNIX philosophy operating system out there at the moment, besides UNIX itself?

>>7
I understand how it works from the user's point of view (and I think it's pretty neat, actually) but how is it organized? Graphical objects aren't text or files. You can't pipe them or manipulate them in the same way you can with everything else in UNIX (or am I wrong?)

>>8
struggling with screen or the X clipboard
I also wish they'd implemented that better. The X clipboard feels too ``meta''.