Revisions: Are You Ready for Linux
On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 16:14:46 +0200
It's probably too easy to say that going from CLI to GUI is equivalent to going from language to pointing and grunting, but that's what it feels like. There are some shells where the loss isn't as great (DOS's command.com and VMS's DCL spring to mind) but even primitive wildcarding-globbing is a vast improvement over sitting there and batch-converting things by hand. Giving up a real shell like bash or zsh to struggle with a GUI is painful, no matter how shiny the buttons are.
Sure. Michael will run his mouth. What he won't do is participate in a public test of Spambuttbuttin versus my little mickey mouse spam program. Which works MUCH better than SA. I...
According to who? Compared to a 3-stage mail filter constructed like this: 1. Pbuttlist (whitelist) 2. Conventional Spam filter (SA will do...
(It's interesting to note how many GUI-centric OSes grew some method of textual scripting. Pre-OS X Macs had AppleTalk, Amigas and OS-2 boxes had REXX, and of course BeOS had bash in whatever that OS used for xterms. MS-Windows is the only one of the bunch without a truly useful equivalent, but they haven't been able to kill off command.com yet, either. And the scripting geeks who use Windows install Cygwin and Perl anyway, filling the niche in a nonstandard fashion.)
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