Ed Leafe wrote: > On Jan 27, 2008, at 9:48 AM, Paul McNett wrote: > >>> If you're not a command line fan, can you survive in a Linux world? >> >> Depends on what you want to do with Linux. Personally, I can't see how >> anyone could use Linux as a serious development machine without >> being at >> home with the command line, but I'm sure it's been done. > > I don't think the requirement was a "serious development machine"; > just whether one could survive. I don't think you could use a Mac as a > "serious development machine" without using Terminal constantly, but > the vast majority of Mac users don't even know that Terminal exists. > Similarly, you could use Linux for email, web browsing, word > processing, spreadsheets... IOW, all the stuff that most people do > every day, and never touch a command line.
I agree 100%! But I guess I just assumed, this being a developer's list... Paul -- http://paulmcnett.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
