Well, as I'm the one who started this I think I should perhaps finish
it with an observation. I think Jane's points are perfectly valid
and the example you give with a car below may or may not apply, it
used to be that if you owned a car, then it was assumed that you knew
a fair bit about the automobile you owned, even to the point of
carrying out your own servicing of the car. But now? Well who does
(or even who can) service their own car because you have to have
particular tools and training thus this list example can easily be
taken to the computer platform, why would anyone bother with LINUX or
UNIX if the GUI presented over the top of another operating system
does the job? Why would anyone with limited time bother to even try
to service a computer when the tech chap down the road or the nearest
Apple Service centre can do the job. I wanted to know about the
terminal and LINUX/UNIX because I've always been interested and I
thank the list members who rose magniviciently to the occasion and
gave me some info to start on, I also acknowledge that this
information would probably bore allot of other list members to
absolute tears, so does watching grass grow bore me too but I'm sure
some list members may be interested in that <smile>
Cheers
On 08/06/2006, at 10:01 AM, Gabriel Vega wrote:
Jane:
its all about reading what you got. you don't just buy a car and not
know what kind of gas it takes, what kind of engin it has and when
yoiu need a tire change you read the tire and see what size it is.
its the same, all over the apple site it brags about the unix under
the hood. and it was a funny, funny, laugh, laugh, joke joke. how
about you lighhten up. it wasn't meant to be mean.
now how about you grow up.
Gabe
On Jun 7, 2006, at 2:56 PM, Jane Jordan (gmail) wrote:
OK, Gabriel. I am going to speak up now, and publicly, becaus eyou
tend to act this way publicly and I am sick and tired of it.
If someone criticizes, you always come back with something
sarcastic. If someone just notices they have something for the
first time, you make a comment such as the one below.
Dude? What the hell is your problem? It's time for you to lighten
up. Not everyone is as knowledgeable as you claim to be. Not
everyone is necessarily aware of what their Macs can do. I
certainly am not aware of *all* of the features it has, nor do I
take advantage of it.
If you are going to keep treating people with such a superior
attitude, eventually people will quit wanting to ask questions,
learn, explore.
Grow up.
Jane
On Jun 7, 2006, at 1:32 AM, Gabriel Vega wrote:
If you don't know that you have something just as linux if not
bbetter under the hood of your current operating system, where
have you been?
Gabe
On Jun 6, 2006, at 10:18 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote:
Hi!
I've just noticed the Terminal utility of OS10, will this allow
me to run LINUX software of any description? I've always wanted
to get into LINUX.
Dane Trethowan
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