Subject: Re: greetings; going beyond the initial connection
From: Chris Ruprecht (chrup@earthlink.net)
Date: Sat Feb 16 2002 - 10:32:35 MST
Tate,
compared to MacOS 9 and before, Linux is a totally different
environment and you will have a lot of learning to do. I have done
Linux/UNIX all my life, so it's no stranger to me, although I have
not been keeping up with all this GUI stuff.
A lot of people are trying to use Linux as they would use MacOS and
that's not a good idea. UNIX was intended to be a server OS, not
really a client. However, in the last few years the boundaries
between the two do not appear that clear any more since we now have
machines, powerful enough to run UNIX as a desktop environment. There
is, of course, still the legacy of the underlying system, underneath
all this pretty graphical stuff though. For some of it, some nice
people have written easy interfaces to make the life of a UNIX novice
a little easier, some stuff you simply have to know to get anywhere.
I wish you all the best in your steps to discover the wonderful world
of UNIX and wish, there was a book or something I could recommend to
make your transition a little easier. But what ever is out the is, in
my eyes, just a lot of blah blah blah - if I open a book in the
middle, and at that point, it begins to explain the 'ls' command,
then it's no good - way to primitive. When I learned UNIX, back in
1984, I had a book called 'UNIX Primer Plus', but it's totally
outdated by now and doesn't cover anything we need to know these
days. The Linux documentation which usually lives under
/usr/share/doc is pretty good, if you know what you're looking for ...
Best regards,
Chris
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