Re: Revisions: Are You Ready for Linux?

From: Chris F.A. Johnson (cfajohnson_at_gmail.com)
Date: 10/04/05 

Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 11:14:40 -0400

On 2005-10-04, Mark South wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 19:32:46 +0800, Lee Sau Dan wrote:
>
>>>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Barts <chbarts+usenet@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> Chris> (Finally, it /is/ faster yet if you don't even startx and
>> Chris> instead do everything from the console immediately after
>> Chris> login. But you can't run Firefox that way,
>>
>> There are 'links' and 'lynx'.
>
> Using X gives one the option of running both at a time :-)

    So does using consoles. When working without X, I have 24
    consoles.

>> These CLI tools are excellent for automating batch operations by means
>> of scripting. GUI, after 2 decades of development, still haven't got
>> anything that comes close to shell-scripting. CLI is so unbeatable in
>> terms of flexibility and expressive power.
>
> In terms of human history, we've been graphical for possibly 10's of
> 1000's of years. Writing was a later invention, about 5000 years back.

    That's called progress.

> So the CLI is really far higher tech than the GUI, and there's no paradox
> that it's more powerful. 

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