[lbo-talk] Linux, was New Imperialism? Imperialism has been monopoly

[joanna bujes]

That depends. When I started out in hi tech, I worked with UNIX and 
liked it a lot. Having that fine-grained access to the OS was very 
reassuring. I also liked the Mac a lot -- I lost a good deal of control, 
but I trusted the interface, and I was able to do pretty much everything 
I wanted to do very easily.

MSoft gives me nothing but anxiety. I don't have the control and I don't 
have the ease of use. I hate it.

If I were just using a computer for my own needs, the Mac would win 
hands down. But, for work, I'd probably rather have a UNIX box -- 
assuming, BIG assumption, that they actually gave me some time to learn it.

The thing about having real control with UNIX is that you do have to 
understand what an OS is and what it does. I don't think that this is 
that hard, but I didn't think Calculus was that hard either. But a lot 
of people do, and they should be able to use computers too. I think UNIX 
could use a good user interface. This would limit what you could do, but 
it would help a lot of people. This would be good. I guess everyone else 
would have to read books.

Ravi, Chuck, anyone, are there good UNIX books?

Joanna

Doug Henwood wrote:


> joanna bujes wrote:
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>> Hasn't anyone written books to explain this stuff?
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> If you need a book, the user interface isn't good enough.
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> Doug
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