What the hell does that mean? I've been using Linux-powered devices since mid-90s and things are getting way too automated and complicated if you ask me. Back then you have to learn how to manually compile the kernel and roll your own init ramdisk with custom drivers, but it was a lot of fun and you learned a lot. Everyone is complaining that Linux is too hard to use; I don't see what the big fuss is about. Before Linux, I learned C and RISC assembly language programming on Sun Sparc workstation boxes running Solaris, X and CDE. Those things were a pain the ass because they were slow and always crashed hard when you tried to do anything interesting and out of the ordinary. Linux was a godsend compared to that. I haven't used anything but Linux since. As long as it follows the UNIX philosophy of simple, powerful tools that can be strung together to solve larger problems, I don't care what it is.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Damon Chesser <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dchesser@acsi2000.com">dchesser@acsi2000.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p class="MsoNormal">I was talking to a Unix guy today at work and he said he is getting used to Linux, but one thing he noticed is “Linux is about as mature as Unix was 10 years ago”. He said that many of the things you have to do manually in Linux is done
automatically for you in Unix. It was a short conversation.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am curious, having never used Unix, anybody have a clue what he might have meant?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> Sincerely,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Damon Chesser</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="mailto:damon@damtek.com" target="_blank">damon@damtek.com</a></span></p>
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