Article: Are You Ready for Linux 4904

Bad phrase. It is not worse, it is more complex-complicated than DOS. Unfortunately the original Unix people working on old teletypes wanted brevity rather than understandability. Thus creat rather than create, grep rather than something like search, ls rather than list, cd rather than newdirectory or even newdir etc. This is combined with the philosophy of many small things tied together to accomplish a task. This makes the command line share many many features with necromancy. Obscure, long rituals, in which if you got even one little thing wrong, you would either get nothing or could get immense destruction. (recall Mickey mouse as the Sorcerer's Apprentice). And the books of Runes ( called man in Linux) are about as obscure as the books of spells.

Once you get used to it, it is wonderful, immensely powerful, and even logical, but getting used to it takes a while.

Unfortunately Microsoft registered it as a Trademark, which is why it is no longer Xwindows or Open windows or ...

While literally true, it is also false. YOu CAN crash the X system, but you can almost always get out of that by going to a console. Rogue programs or hardware faults can cause the system to halt.

No idea what the last two levels are. There are only root and others on Linux. network users (whatever they are) and others are identical.

Well, dubious. The distros are similar enough that what attacks one almost certainly also attacks the other. They are far more similar than Win 98 and Windows XP for example.

It can also be made in Linux. It is just that since they cannot run Linux from the CD, they do not have Linux to make the floppy. They presumably only have Windows. Ie, it is not ironic, it is necessary. Ie, Fortunately this disk can be made in Windows.

Give the names.

Agreed. It makes it sound frightening.