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[News] [Linux] The Need for the Command Line, No Need for Unified API

Reflections on the command line

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| That's one of the best things about the Unix command line - no
| backtalk, no second guessing, no false comraderie. To me the
| assumption of user competence is profoundly user friendly -and
| infinitely to be preferred to the smarmy checks and failsafes
| Windows puts on.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=853

A Linux Desktop? Or just another desktop?

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| Linux isn't the same and it doesn't have to be the same. A unified API
| or development environment is not necessary, and probably isn't even 
| possible because of the culture around Linux. All that is important
| is that Linux look the same as Windows when you want to run Windows
| applications.
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http://www.techevangelism.com/2007/04/30/a-linux-desktop-or-just-another-desktop/


Related:

When will we hear the end of computer quacks?

,----[ Quote ]
| So why beat the dead skunk again? Check it out: Don Norman discovered
| command line interfaces! And he's about to take his discovery to the
| press! Yes, he thinks this is an original discovery all his own.
| 
| [...]
| 
| I can't wait until Microsoft invents apt-get so he can fawn over it next...
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http://penguinpetes.com/b2evo/index.php?title=when_will_we_hear_the_end_of_computer_qu&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1


Geek to Live: The command line comeback

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| The advent of the Graphical User Interface (GUI) forever
| revolutionized personal computing. A windowed system with point
| and click icons made computers usable for anyone who couldn't deal
| with a black screen and a prompt waiting for arcane textual commands.
| But in recent years, this enormous interface change is coming full
| circle. Amongst power users - and more and more, regular Joe's - the
| command line is making a comeback in modern web and desktop
| applications.
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http://www.lifehacker.com/software/command-line/geek-to-live--the-command-line-comeback-226223.php
http://tinyurl.com/y88w3w


Who needs the command line? (Well, actually, we all do)

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| "We'll always have Paris", Humphrey Bogart said to Ingrid Bergman
| in the iconic climax of Casablanca - and we will always have the
| command line. Here's looking at you kid!
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/who_needs_the_command_line_we_all_do


Death of the command line

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| It's hard for me to imagine using an OS without a strong command line.
| Even Microsoft has recognized the for that with their Monad Shell
| (though they are at least temporarily removing that from Vista). Linux
| of course has its Bash shell, Mac OS X has Terminal (which now defaults
| to Bash) - everybody knows you need a shell.
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http://aplawrence.com/Unixart/command_line_death.html 


You use Command Lines all the time and don't know it!!!

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| Man, the heat Linux catches over command lines! The flames! The trolls!
| The clueless screaming for help! And all the while, command lines are
| right under your nose the whole time! Yes, even on the most mousy,
| GUI-driven, WIMPy, point-n-drool interface, whether it be Macs or
| Microsofties, you're typing commands into prompts every day!
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http://penguinpetes.com/b2evo/index.php?p=156&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 


Microsoft PowerShell to make it into Longhorn Server, after all

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| Microsoft's command-line scripting shell, originally code-named
| "Monad," and known now as Windows PowerShell, is going to be
| part of Longhorn Server, after all.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=352

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