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  • From: Ilan Volow <listboy AT clarux.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] WalMart Sun Linux
  • Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 18:55:00 -0400


On Apr 6, 2004, at 2:06 PM, zman wrote:

On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Ilan Volow wrote:
Hopefully, in 10 years, there won't be a command-line or any other
trace of unix in whatever OSS OS that achieves world domination.

Dude you need a serious clue. Command-line is not a bad thing. An OS
without a CLI is pretty much useless. There will never be an OS worth
anything without a CLI. The only OS you will see without a CLI is a closed
source one.

I think the fact that some people in the Open Source community associate an environment where absolutely everything is done graphically with proprietaryness speaks volumes about why the current offering of open source UI's suck.



Hell even winblows has a command-line. PLease step away from
the crack pipe.



From what I've seen, if an OS supports a command line, the command-line-thinking without fail finds a way to leak into the GUI. Saying that the command line isn't a bad thing is like saying a site for radioactive waste isn't a bad thing (it does create jobs, after all). People tell you "no, no. It'll never leak out. It's buried under an entire mountain of stuff. There's no chance of it polluting anything". And then five years later everyone in the valley around the mountain starts getting weird cancers and people catch three-eyed fish. Or in the case of operating systems, you find a hell of a lot of GUI apps sprouting system-oriented jargon or all-lower case executable names with dashes in the middle like foo-install-tool.

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Ilan Volow
Ergonomica Auctorita Illico!





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