For the Newbies

[Christopher Ness]

On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 11:42, Wayde Gutman wrote:
> My impression from fedora-list emails that many of the users of FC1 and
> FC2 are from the GUI generation, e.t., Windows. I have been a computer
> user since MS-DOS 3.3 days, as far as I am concerned, if you had never
> used DOS, you are at a disadvantage.

GUI's are just a subset of what can be done with a current *nix system. 
They provide access to functions for non-technical users, but if you
want to harness the raw power of the OS then you need to get your hands
dirty and understand how things actually work.  
For example: pipes (see example below), redirection, threads, processes,
C, Unix Philosopies such as small programs working together to get the
job done.

I like the CLI, it has more power.

I'm reading The Art of Unix Programming by Eric Raymond
http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/

> [newbie at lostchild newbie]$ dmesg | lpr (sends to printer)

I suggest this to save trees:
$ dmesg | mpage | lpr 

> If you want more grief and despair, get FreeBSD (www.freebsd.org) and
> tackled that !

I would have said OpenBSD, but to each their own.

Chris
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