Re: Screw Linux, I'm going back to Windows!

From: Bruce Burhans (bburhan1@earthlink.net)
Date: 09/11/02 

From: "Bruce Burhans" <bburhan1@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 03:27:06 GMT

"John" <spam@spammail.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.17e8801be72e72fb989698@news.cis.dfn.de...
> In article <d0ssnuk59r9pioi3furi65kuqp6hp5qsoq@4ax.com>, use@reply.to
> says...
> > anything like that. so I presume GUI is my best option. actually,
> > that's a question I've been wanting answered...who mainly uses the
> > console? people running servers and the like, as I mentioned?
> > or does using the console teach you how things work at a lower level,
> > better than the GUI?
> >
>
> When you mean console, I assume you are talking about Non-Gui stuff, I.e
> a shell.
>
> There are lots of reasons why people use shell (like bash, tcsh etc.)
> One main reason is to execute shell scripts. Also in order to compile
> software that is distributed in source form, most of them require you to
> go into bash, execute tar, execute make etc.
>
>

    I don't know about James, for sure, but when *I*
talk about the console, I mean no GUI and no mouse.

Bruce<+>

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