[ale] Unix Automation?

[Geoffrey Myers]

Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 08:51 -0400, Chris Fowler wrote:
>> On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 05:23 -0700, Damon Chesser wrote:
>>> I am curious, having never used Unix, anybody have a clue what  he
>>> might have meant? 
>> What he meant was that he was not really a UNIX geek and that Linux
>> perplexed him :)
>>
>> Sorry,  I've never bit**ed about things being automatic.  If anything
>> I've complained about things being too automatic making it harder for
>> newbies to learn the internals so they can fix real problems.
>>
>> As I said before.  When I got into Linux vi was our config tool and we
>> learned more about UNIX then than a noob will learn today in the same
>> amount of time.  If you had to download a base X config and then
>> configure it for your desktop using vi then raise your hand....
>> Everyone else get off my lawn!
> 
> My hand is raised.  30 days to get X running on my first Linux install.

Yeah, I remember installing my first Slackware from floppies.  Two days 
later I was dancing a jig because I saw: login:

A week later, I had X running.

>>
>> Chris
>>
> 


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Until later, Geoffrey

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