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Luckily, my older brother had brought home a "Learning UNIX" book when I was a kid, which helped me learn about UNIX fundamentals years before getting my hands
by sedatk 5y ago
Luckily, my older brother had brought home a "Learning UNIX" book when I was a kid, which helped me learn about UNIX fundamentals years before getting my hands on a machine with it. I was fascinated with the book because UNIX sounded too advanced compared to what I was using back then (an 8-bit Amstrad CPC464). I still use the same knowledge such as managing shell background jobs, exiting vi, using tar, permissions, and so forth 30 years later. UNIX is quite magical in its consistency.
- unixhero 5y agoI rarely bring in anecdotes from my mum, but she said it seemed like I was learning something so arcane, as if I was learning how to run nuclear powerplants when I studied Unix at the age of 16. I still use the knowledge I learned from those books, thanks IDC and O'Reilly. I still think Sendmail and bind DNS is a bitch. I still also ridicule Microsoft, although on various points I know I am at least partially wrong. Unix and Linux, what a world.
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