• (disco) in reply to Severity_One
    Severity_One:
    Nonsense. GUIs are for people that don't understand computers (Apple users) or do some hippy design kind of work (Apple users) or sit around at Starbucks all day (Apple users). Real men use a keyboard, a screen and /bin/sh.

    GUIs are also there to allow you to see more terminals at once. Win-win!

  • (disco) in reply to Severity_One
    Severity_One:
    Nonsense. GUIs are for people that don't understand computers (Apple users) or do some hippy design kind of work (Apple users) or sit around at Starbucks all day (Apple users). Real men use a keyboard, a screen and /bin/sh.

    Computer programming is hippie work now?

    Sent from my Apple MacBook running Windows 7.

  • (disco) in reply to Arantor
    Arantor:
    Sent from my Apple MacBook running Windows 7.

    Awww, but not inside a VM? Dissapoint.

  • (disco) in reply to Onyx

    Because VMs suck for gaming performance.

  • (disco) in reply to Arantor

    And this is why you have either dual boot or multiple systems.

  • (disco) in reply to abarker
    abarker:
    And this is why you have either dual boot or multiple systems.

    Correct. Am using Boot Camp.

  • (disco) in reply to Onyx
    Onyx:
    >Severity_One said: Real men use a keyboard, a screen and /bin/sh.

    But... but... history! Autocomplete!

    I'm willing to be called a sissy, but I'm not letting you take my bash away!

    Nobody is taking your bash away; /bin/sh is just a symlink to /bin/bash, at least on most modern *nix.

  • (disco) in reply to HardwareGeek
    HardwareGeek:
    Nobody is taking your bash away; /bin/sh is just a symlink to /bin/bash, at least on most modern *nix. 
    $ ls -l /bin/sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Feb 19 07:13 /bin/sh -> dash

    BZZZZT

    Filed Under: Aren't most modern *nix based on Debian?

  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla
    boomzilla:
    Aren't most modern *nix based on Debian?

    I don't know; I've used mostly RedHat (or derivatives), SuSE or *BSD. Long ago, SysV. Recently, pretty much just RH.

  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla
    boomzilla:
    $ ls -l /bin/sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Feb 19 07:13 /bin/sh -> dash

    BZZZZT

    SUSE says: /bin/sh -> bash

  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla
    boomzilla:
    Filed Under: Aren't most modern *nix based on Debian?

    I wish. Well, on desktop, maybe. Most of it still seems to revolve around RHEL / CentOS in the business world. Which I wouldn't have a problem with if their repos weren't from the last century.

    THEY repos? The hell was I smoking? And do I have any more?

  • (disco) in reply to Onyx
    Onyx:
    Most of it still seems to revolve around RHEL / CentOS in the business world. Which I wouldn't have a problem with if they repos weren't from the last century.

    Yeah, I have to deal with those a lot at work, though I don't admin them, so at least there's that.

  • (disco) in reply to Onyx
    Onyx:
    I wish. Well, on desktop, maybe. Most of it still seems to revolve around RHEL / CentOS in the business world. Which I wouldn't have a problem with if their repos weren't from the last century.
    From what I've seen it's about 50/50 between Debian and Red Hat, with a few weirdoes. Slackware has a rudimentary package system, with no dependencies. Standard procedure is to download the source for whatever you're looking to install. If it compiles, you have all of your dependencies. Gentoo has scripts that will do the downloads for you and compile everything needed in the proper order.
  • (disco) in reply to antiquarian
    antiquarian:
    From what I've seen it's about 50/50 between Debian and Red Hat, with a few weirdoes.

    Might be my current job then. Most places with active setups I get into run Elastix which is based on CentOS. Usually Windows servers for other stuff.

    But I did get a feel that RHEL crowd is preferred from talking to other people in IT I know.

    antiquarian:
    Slackware has a rudimentary package system, with no dependencies. Standard procedure is to download the source for whatever you're looking to install. If it compiles, you have all of your dependencies. Gentoo has scripts that will do the downloads for you and compile everything needed in the proper order.

    And then there's Arch, and yes, I saw it on live systems. Aaaargh!

  • (disco) in reply to Onyx

    CentOS is a fork of Red Hat.

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