Two Years Before the Prompt: A Linux Odyssey

Posted by michael on Friday September 10, 2004 @01:39AM from the picky-about-who-its-friends-are dept.

tim1980 writes "Derek Croxton has written a rather long editorial on how he sees the Linux and Open Source communities, and his personal experiences with Linux, the editorial is titled Two Years Before the Prompt: A Linux Odyssey and is over 3,500 words. Excerpt: 'A novice's greatest fear is sitting in front of a motionless command prompt with no idea what to type; or, as so frequently happens, knowing a command that he copied verbatim from a document discovered on the internet somewhere, but with no idea of what it means or how to alter it if it doesn't behave exactly as advertised.'"

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Re:From TFA by makomk · 2004-09-10 01:58 · Score: 0, Flamebait

| Linux is probably the worst in most respects, full of useless tools that do nothing to help a user accomplish anything. Its desktops are sloppy and amateurish, and what little documentation exists is laden with hyperlinks to homosexual lifestyle websites.
Screw this guy, right fellas!
+3, Interesting?! Scary...
Re:.so hell NOT NO MORE FOR ME! by wobblie · 2004-09-10 04:39 · Score: 0, Flamebait

You are a fucking IDIOT. thanks for not understanding even one of the issues you bring up.

Thanks.