Cooking With Linux

Georg Tobin writes "LinuxWorld open source editor Kevin Bedell conducts a very interesting interview with Michael Stutz, author of the new Linux Cookbook, 2nd Edition, on the language of the Linux command line, cookbooks, economics, and what applications you absolutely need Windows for."

Comments

Re:"very interesting"

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/* for the record: I never post AC and I don't know who that was - and yes, I'm on my monthly trolling spree, treat it as such */

So let's see:
- has used Linux exclusively for over a decade. He was the first to apply the open source methodology of Linux to non-software works
- My background is literature and philosophy, which has brought the advantage of perspective
- Forty years ago the United States was the greatest producer society in the world. What happened in that interval and how does it relate to Linux?
- an arrangement with the publisher, I typeset the book using only free software on Linux
- Our cities are decaying and dangerous. The implications for the younger generation are terrifying. But with Linux, we could turn all of that around!

Interesting ? Yes, a way to put it. Well, for these kinds of books it's most advantageous to have such a huge consumer base a in the U.S., to put it mildly. I for one would use the amount of cash for most, well, useful things.