On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 11:42, Wayde Gutman wrote: > My impression from fedora-list emails that many of the users of FC1 and > FC2 are from the GUI generation, e.t., Windows. I have been a computer > user since MS-DOS 3.3 days, as far as I am concerned, if you had never > used DOS, you are at a disadvantage. GUI's are just a subset of what can be done with a current *nix system. They provide access to functions for non-technical users, but if you want to harness the raw power of the OS then you need to get your hands dirty and understand how things actually work. For example: pipes (see example below), redirection, threads, processes, C, Unix Philosopies such as small programs working together to get the job done. I like the CLI, it has more power. I'm reading The Art of Unix Programming by Eric Raymond http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/ > [newbie@lostchild newbie]$ dmesg | lpr (sends to printer) I suggest this to save trees: $ dmesg | mpage | lpr > If you want more grief and despair, get FreeBSD (www.freebsd.org) and > tackled that ! I would have said OpenBSD, but to each their own. Chris -- Software Engineering IV, McMaster University PGP Public Key: http://nesser.org/pgp-key/ 12:39:43 up 59 min, 7 users, load average: 0.16, 0.21, 0.27 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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