[ale] Unix Automation?

[David Hillman]

What the hell does that mean?  I've been using Linux-powered devices since
mid-90s and things are getting way too automated and complicated if you ask
me.  Back then you have to learn how to manually compile the kernel and roll
your own init ramdisk with custom drivers, but it was a lot of fun and you
learned a lot.  Everyone is complaining that Linux is too hard to use; I
don't see what the big fuss is about.  Before Linux, I learned C and RISC
assembly language programming on Sun Sparc workstation boxes running
Solaris, X and CDE.  Those things were a pain the ass because they were slow
and always crashed hard when you tried to do anything interesting and out of
the ordinary.  Linux was a godsend compared to that.  I haven't used
anything but Linux since.  As long as it follows the UNIX philosophy of
simple, powerful tools that can be strung together to solve larger problems,
I don't care what it is.

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Damon Chesser <dchesser at acsi2000.com>wrote:

>  All,
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> I was talking to a Unix guy today at work and he said he is getting used to
> Linux, but one thing he noticed is “Linux is about as mature as Unix was 10
> years ago”.  He said that many of the things you have to do manually in
> Linux is done automatically for you in Unix.  It was a short conversation.
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> I am curious, having never used Unix, anybody have a clue what  he might
> have meant?
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>  Sincerely,
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> Damon Chesser
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> damon at damtek.com
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