It occurs to me that, in years to come, adages such as "I used to walk ten miles to work. Uphill. In the snow. With no shoes." will be replaced with "I used to run make with single-digit values for -j".
There'll also be a whole generation who have never compiled a linux kernel. Or removed a bunch of modules to get more speed / less memory usage. Or who know 'apt-get install' is the real way to do package management (not with a GUI). Or even ./configure; make; make install.
It's weird to be back in linux. I feel like I should be using the console all the time, but Ubuntu has so many shiny graphical utilities for managing things, it seems rude not to use them. I fear OS X has corrupted me and turned me into a mouse-wielding drooling moron.
Posted by savs at October 8, 2008 4:08 PMAhhh excuses excuses, OS X has a command line too you know..... :-)
Ehh by eck' we had t'walk t'school through snow with no shoes, after t'twelve hour shift down't'pit !
Posted by: Jed at October 9, 2008 4:45 PM