Two Years Before the Prompt: A Linux Odyssey

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Author: Derek Croxton

Tim Mullins writes “Derek Croxton has written a rather long editorial on how he sees the Linux and Open Source communities, and his personal experiences with Linux.
Excerpt: A novice’s greatest fear is sitting in front of a motionless command prompt with no idea what to type; or, as so frequently happens, knowing a command that he copied verbatim from a document discovered on the internet somewhere, but with no idea of what it means or how to alter it if it doesn’t behave exactly as advertised.