[ale] Unix Automation?

[Damon L. Chesser]

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.
> 
> 
> Chris
> 

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