On Mon, 24 May 2004 15:32:26 +1200 Jim Cheetham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This does not make the learning path easy, but unix is not easy. Making Maybe if unix would had be called UPE (Unix it's not an operating system, it's just a unix programming environment) that name would give a hint of to how to rub the lamp so that the unix's genius appears. Truly, at least unix programming environment is a good key in google's search for information and the name of a Kernighan's book really old but interesting, because the old unix spirit reborns with gnu and linux. The first unix I've ever known was ms's xenix 286!, and it came with good manuals, since then, I like unix. Then I'd found at the bookstore a book with a CD about an operating system called Linux that would, ... and so the story goes. Maybe some day I will found a better os, but I can't feel comfortable with any that doesn't have a diff command at hand, not to speak of a grep or a rcs like tool at least. I might think that the provider is trying to cheat me, or that he's selling me a toy not an efficient work's tool. (That was IBM's original purpose for the PC and its os, and that explains its poor hard/soft architecture: to provide a successful home's toy, wasn't it?). -juan
