[ Thanks to Kelly
McNeill for this link. ]
“The following column is based on the hurtful (but true)
assumption that most users want to stay away of the command-line,
and that Linux will never reach World Domination unless its
geek-friendly face is hidden from Joe Public. With that, let’s
away.”
“Unix is becoming pretty trendy nowadays. Organizations which
once were inclined to drop Unix for NT are reluctant (to say the
least) today. Apple’s going the Unix way. BeOS, although not based
on Unix, borrows many of its design aspects. And Microsoft, the
same one that denounces Unix as 30-year-old technology, is
incorporating Unix features into Win2K – Safe Mode Console (Unix
without X), logging as another user without switching session (su
anyone?), permissions for individual files, and an attempt to
introduce a method to terminate a single application without
destabilizing the system (another effort to kill() Unix, I
suppose).”