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Posts in 2008 December 31
Reminder: Submit Your Linux Dream – Deadline: 2 PM on Thursday (Eastern Time)
Don’t forget to submit your dream for Linux! The deadline for submission is 2 PM Eastern time on Thursday, January 1st. (If your late, go ahead and submit anyway, I wouldn’t really close submissions until I get around to printing them out.) Submissions will be looked over and the most popular and/or interesting ones will be featured in a post.
The Terminal Test: Do you have to use the terminal in Linux?
Reminder: Submit your Linux dream! Deadline: 2 PM on Thursday.
A frequent worry of Linux newbies is that they will have to learn how to use the terminal, something that is unfamiliar to new users. There is some debate, however, over when you have to use the terminal, if you have to at all. The question is: it is possible to use Linux without using the terminal?
It has been my personal opinion that everything can be done from the GUI and it is only that people are often advised to use the terminal, since it is easier to give someone a command than to explain what to click. Still, though, I sometimes find myself heading to the terminal to perform some test.
Here is the experiment: Every time I go to the terminal to do something, I will put a post out to Twitter and Identi.ca saying what I had to do, explaining the GUI way of doing it, and making suggestions for how things could be improved so that I would not have had to use the terminal – all in 140 characters.
You can follow the experiment at either of the below URLs, both should have the same content through Ping.fm.
http://identi.ca/terminaltest
http://twitter.com/terminaltest
I look forward to seeing how this experiment turns out.
Happy new year!