The UNIX console was around long before Microsoft even existed. DOS "borrowed" all its ideas from UNIX and ended up with a subset of the commands and functionality available in the various UNIX shells.
Microsoft did with computers what MCI did with telephone technology; repackage and remarket it... and try to add some frills and features to make it more user-friendly, but the underlying technology was created by others. The current Windows was born from a collaboration with IBM, where MS got all the knowledge they needed, they sent their business partner packing. MS did the same thing with Sybase. Thank goodness for AT&T's Bell Laboratories, DARPA, and XEROX's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Those were the *REAL INNOVATORS*, not Bill Gates. Solely my opinion, of course. Others may agree or disagree, but if it weren't for Linus Torvalds and Linux, I doubt MicroSoft (original spelling of the company name--an abbreviation for microcomputer software) would even be talking about open source software today. My $0.02. Welcome to the FREE thinking and FREE knowledge sharing of Linux and the foundation the INTERNET was originally constructed on! The cost of FREEDOM here is lost profits for some, but the gains far outweigh any short-sighted business motivation. Now you've had my $0.04 worth. LOL timadam wrote: > I am also. 2 weeks ago I put Ubuntu 9.10 on my 3 year old dell > notebook and am VERY happy. I only wish I had switched sooner. It > has performed beautifully. The first thing I noticed was that it was > not running my hard drive like a whipped horse like WinXP was used to > doing. Once you are up and running I would suggest you bone up on > bash commands. If you did much with DOS you will see what DOS was > supposed to be but MS just couldn't pull it off. My humble opinion. > > On Dec 11, 9:36 am, MarkIsaN00B <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I am new to Linux, but I have WAY too long of a history of Windows, so >> I am not completely lost with computers. What is the best Linux >> variant for a home system, and where is a safe place to download it >> from? >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
