Rootless root | km's blog | Eric Raymond

Saturday 31st of July 2010 09:06:50 PM
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I had the great honor of reading the writing of Eric S. Raymond, also known as 'esr', Rootless root, which may sound for you like a trip in the botanic garden, but for me it holds more meanings which you may only understand if you're enough of a *UNIX Geek.

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30 articles every new Linux user should read

Saturday 31st of July 2010 09:06:50 PM
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It is good to know Linux/Unix inside and out, the culture, the community, the philosophy and history of the software in question.

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Extensibility in Vim and Emacs

Saturday 31st of July 2010 09:06:50 PM
Posted by admin / Under Unix Philosophy

Emacs and Vim both provide facility for extension. But as they represent divergent philosophies — Vim following the “small is beautiful” and “do one thing well” precepts of Unix, Emacs coming from a belief that the editor is an operational hub — they have different objectives here.

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Basics of the Unix Philosophy

Saturday 31st of July 2010 09:06:50 PM
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The ‘Unix philosophy’ originated with Ken Thompson's early meditations on how to design a small but capable operating system with a clean service interface. It grew as the Unix culture learned things about how to get maximum leverage out of Thompson's design. It absorbed lessons from many sources along the way.

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Avoiding Ruinous Compromises by Richard Stallman

Saturday 31st of July 2010 09:06:50 PM
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Twenty-five years ago on September 27, 1983, I announced a plan to create a completely free operating system called GNU -- for 'GNU is not Unix'. As part of the 25th anniversary of the GNU system, I have written this article on how our community can avoid ruinous compromises.

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Why Shell?

Saturday 31st of July 2010 09:06:50 PM
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In UNIX, which is the parent operating system of Linux and the origin of many of the ideas and of the philosophy of the operating system, a variety of...

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