[NetBehaviour] Knowing your computer - The terminal manifesto

[Pall Thayer]

I also posted this on facebook and a lively discussion emerged involving
Philip Galanter and others. I just want to point out that I'm not arguing
for a complete return to the command line but, as Pascal's recommended
article points out, there are things that the terminal does better than the
GUI.


On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 7:05 AM, pascale gustin <gustin.pascale at free.fr>wrote:

> Hi !
>
> An interesting text :
> http://reader.lgru.net/texts/echo-echo-echo-echo-command-line-poetics/
>
> +++
> p
>
> Le 10/31/2013 04:29 PM, marc garrett a écrit :
> > Hi Rob,
> >
> > Thanks for the link to the FLOSS Manuals' 'Put Yourself in Command'
> > link. It is also nicely executed on the page is elf, well worth a visit
> :-)
> >
> > I'd also recommend "SSH" from FLOSS Manuals'
> > http://en.flossmanuals.net/command-line/ch029_ssh/
> >
> > marc
> >
> >> On 30/10/13 05:03 PM, dan mcquillan wrote:
> >>> i remember finding neal stephenson's 'In the Beginning was the Command
> >>> Line' pretty inspiring http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html
> >> A good practical introduction is the FLOSS Manuals one:
> >>
> >> http://flossmanuals.net/command-line/
> >>
> >> For people who are reading this discussion with a sneaking suspicion
> >> that the command line is a really bad idea, there's the UNIX-hater's
> >> Handbook:
> >>
> >> web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf
> >>
> >> :-)
> >>
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