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What Unix Can Feel Like

In the course of an informative account of his efforts to install MythTV (open-source TiVo), David Weinberger perfectly describes what Unix feels like to many people:

I am a slightly competent Unix user who can grep his way out of a paper bag, so long as no regular expressions are required, but that's about my limit. So getting Linux-based MythTV installed feels like it requires me to issue complex magical incantations. Get one syllable wrong, and instead of the mouse turning into a white charger, you've given your sister boils for seven years.

Indeed. I've had days like that...and I first used Unix circa 1984.

Posted by Michael : June 17, 2006 11:36 AM | Software | TechnoLinks