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Since I work with UNIX all day when I work, I try not to look at it when I working on my system.
lol Polar opposite. I do all day, every day, and well.. I don't feel comfortable in the GUI environment.. never have, probably never will. To me the GUI exists to offer up xterms
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I always just think of the GUI as being a fancy front end to the CLI tools (it's very much like that in the Linux world IIRC). That creeps over into OS X. For instance, I think the firewall System Preferences pane is a front end for ipfw and the pane for sharing is a front end for Apache, Samba et al.
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If you can type decently, you can fly in the terminal and it's more fun. Actually helps your typing skills and make your brain work and think more!
Even though I like a GUI, I love typing at a terminal also. Did it for many years before I owned a decent GUI system.
Even though I like a GUI, I love typing at a terminal also. Did it for many years before I owned a decent GUI system.
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I think we should sticky this as the official nerd thread...
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I think we should sticky this as the official nerd thread...
I prefer 'geek'. I did end up here from a fine arts start after all ;D
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It's good to have a diverse nerd population ...errr...pardon me...I mean geek
...errr...pardon me...I mean geek 
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Geek is the nice way of saying brainiac !!!! Nerd is a more derogative way. I think geek sounds cooler too
Back to Terminal. I used it once to rid myself of the horrid Dashboard and and did its job. I asked you Van once for a recommendation on a good Linux whatever to dl and use it in a VM. Im still getting around too it lol but in the near future ill have a chance to sit down one weekend and have a blast.
I think ill get a lot out of it in ways that would help me too.
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Back to Terminal. I used it once to rid myself of the horrid Dashboard and and did its job. I asked you Van once for a recommendation on a good Linux whatever to dl and use it in a VM. Im still getting around too it lol but in the near future ill have a chance to sit down one weekend and have a blast.
I think ill get a lot out of it in ways that would help me too.
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Cheers
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Ubuntu is probably the most user friendly out there.
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openSUSE is another good one (my personal favourite) and Fedora's not bad either. This is where virtual machines are great - you can try them all without any consequences.
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As odd as it sounds, I use all three of those on a daily basis.. personally, my work laptops RHEL.. and it's what I tend to prefer. Go figure.
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I tried to use RH back before the RHEL days (RH9 was my first distribution) and just couldn't get into it. Gave it another go with Fedora Core 3/4 through 6 and still found myself wondering why I would use it permanently. There's just something about it that irks me and I can't put my finger on it. I think it might have something to do with the allure of YaST which, despite claims that it's bloated, I love.
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Yea, but I made my living running RH boxes for a while.. eventually you get used to something (hey, I even really liked solaris
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Well, now I have to question your sanity.hey, I even really liked solaris
I tried Solaris a while back and had to have a drink after trying it. I didn't think it was possible to make an operating system so slow. Now, mind you, I was running it in a VM but not only was is slow relative to other VMs I run but it was slow in VirtualBox! Ugh, the thought of trying to use it again makes me cringe. It tarnishes the Unix name. Haha.
So, I just found this - a tip to adding smiley faces to the bash prompt. I don't know how to feel about that.
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Well, now I have to question your sanity.
I tried Solaris a while back and had to have a drink after trying it. I didn't think it was possible to make an operating system so slow. Now, mind you, I was running it in a VM but not only was is slow relative to other VMs I run but it was slow in VirtualBox! Ugh, the thought of trying to use it again makes me cringe. It tarnishes the Unix name. Haha.
So, I just found this - a tip to adding smiley faces to the bash prompt. I don't know how to feel about that.
Solaris runs great on a sparc processor.. anything else, not so much.. oh did I mention I had a Ultra20 as a workstation then (and a tadpole for a laptop)
reading the link...
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Oh yes, I've heard that Solaris runs like a dream on Sparc machines. I should have tested that - I got an old Sun box from someone once for $20 but never ended up using it (it weighed more than a car). I was going to run Linux on it but never got the chance since I didn't have a keyboard to start the install process.
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Oh my...
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That place I go in the Silicon Valley I have mentioned before called WierdStuff Warehouse has monitors, Keyboards and everything for the Sparc. I also almost bought one of the little Sun workstations but having to get all that stuff to make it work threw me off. Might check next time I go into the Bay Area.
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