Learning Unix

[Dupple]

Here's a nifty little site I cam across yesterday. Ten minuets is a little optimistic but it's one of the better starting places.

http://freeengineer.org/learnUNIXin10minutes.html

[fuzorsilverbolt]

If you really want to learn unix I'd recommend putting FreeBSD onto a spare i386 box that you have laying around. You don't need anythng fancy. In my humble opinion, MAC OS X isn't a practical place to learn unix because you have the advantage of using a GUI to administer the machine. Learn unix for the challenge of using the real thing and you'll be all the better. Redhat or any other linux variants doesn't count as unix. You don't have real unix until you have to complie everything for your system yourself from sources. And you don't have the whole unix experience unless you setup a BSD box, use CVSUP to update your sources and ports collection, update and install a new world and kernel then install a few ports such as an apache web server and mysql database server.

Maybe I'm off track here an a little out of line, please forgive me. But my primary pet peeve is that nobody knows how to use the command line. I mean today's kids are learning how to use computers using windows xp's GUI, the schools don't teach any DOS command line or anything of the sort. My rule of thumb has always been learn the command line first then you can have your GUI. The other way around is just shameful. :cry:

[T]

Soon we won't need a keyboard so why learn command lines?

[fuzorsilverbolt]

How do you figure that? :?

The keyboard is here to stay until everybody doesn't need to type... Especially in prepress.

[jimking]

Originally Posted by fuzorsilverbolt

How do you figure that? :?

The keyboard is here to stay until everybody doesn't need to type... Especially in prepress.

Soon there will be no physical keyboard, just a vertual one. No monitor or mouse either. You'll point and drag using your fingers on a vertual monitor. Beam me up Scotty! :lol:

[T]

http://www.newscientisttech.com/arti...handsfree.html

http://www.newscientist.com/article/...ng-system.html

http://www.newscientist.com/article/...keyboards.html

http://www.newscientist.com/article/...in-itself.html


http://www.newscientist.com/article/...boards---.html


There's lot's more...


T

[MarkDouma]

Speech recognition (at least in Windows Vista) still needs a bit of work: http://www.youtube.com/v/KyLqUf4cdwc (Language content advisory).

[T]

Nothing happens overnight.