Re:Don't panic and keep forking Debian
by chubot on Saturday November 29, 2014 @01:00PM
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Give the Art of Unix Programming and honest read, and I'm
sure you will come around.
If you have ONLY used Unices, then I could understand why the philosophy is invisible.
If, like me, you had used Windows exclusively for a decade, and then Unix for a decade, then the Unix philosophy would knock you up side the head. The systems could not be more different. (Despite the fact that they run mostly the same applications. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Biculturalism.html is the review that got me to read it).
If you have ONLY used Unices, then I could understand why the philosophy is invisible.
If, like me, you had used Windows exclusively for a decade, and then Unix for a decade, then the Unix philosophy would knock you up side the head. The systems could not be more different. (Despite the fact that they run mostly the same applications. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Biculturalism.html is the review that got me to read it).