[ale] Unix Automation?

[Lightner, Jeff]

The first time I saw X was on a Sun loner box that came in with a
graphics card and monitor.   I think it was Solaris 2.   The aquarium
screen saver seemed amazing but sucked up all the CPU power.   Up until
then I'd only used CLI for AT&T & SCO UNIX and a hodgepodge of other
things.

 

I didn't start using X full time until around 1996 when I began working
on HP-UX.   Many of their tools had X modes as well as CLI.   Back then
the consoles weren't graphic though - most of the X I saw was using
Exceed on a Windows deskstop.

 

The first time I saw MS Windows it was something you launched from DOS.
I inherited a PC from a tech writer that had it.  I launched it and
after playing around a bit  decided I didn't need that "namby pamby GUI
stuff".   These days I have a better appreciation for GUIs but still
spend most of my time in CLI.

 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim
Kinney
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 10:25 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Unix Automation?

 

 

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Geoffrey Myers
<lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:

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.


Wow! My first X run took a month of evenings and weekends. Between bad
timing docs on my monitor and nearly toasting one in tests, X was really
not making the SWMBO happy.

	
	>>
	>> Chris
	>>
	>
	
	
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