SWM, Shell User, Seeks Soul Mate for GUI-Free LTR
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| "There is a sad truth to the world today," wrote the anonymous poster of the
| ad. "I am part of a dying breed of people known as 'shell users.' We are an
| old-fashioned bunch, preferring the warm glow of a green screen full of text
| over the cold blockiness of a graphical interface.... The whole 'Microsoft
| Windows' fad will fade away sooner or later, but in the interim, our kind is
| facing extinction.
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http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/must-read/61394.html
Speeding Up Free Software Adoption: External and Internal Routes to Success
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| Striking a balance between mindsets might be a factor on which the success of
| Free software is hinged. Put simply, a struggle against
| so-called 'pragmatism' may have been one of the greatest barriers to wider
| adoption of Free software.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3724136
Related:
When will we hear the end of computer quacks?
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| 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
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