On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, Sam Ewalt wrote:
> Lots of time unless you are a very quick learner. There are thousands
> of Unix commands, each with numerous variants and switches.
Well, there may be a half-million words in the
English language, but people get along just fine
using only 10,000 or so.
For everyday futzing around with your system, you
might use a few dozen commands. When you need to
do something other than "everyday" you get out your
book, or look in the man pages.
> And at least six ways to do anything.
At least TEN ways to do anything. ;-)
> Somebody once said that using Linux was like living in a house
> occupied by dozens of architects and carpenters who are busy
> night and day making improvements and renovations.
I don't really like that analogy. It implies that
workmen are upsetting your lifestyle all the time.
If you want to install RedHat 5.2 and leave it at
that, you can. It'll run for years, and nobody
will modify your walls or change your floorplan.
That's up to you to do... IF you want to.
Of course, since you "moved-in" to your "house"
hundreds of new floorplans have been designed, and
dozens of new construction methods have been devised,
and scores of new building materials invented, all
available for you to examine, use or discard; or just
ignore. :-)
- Steve
