Comments on: That Hard To Find textinfo info (Linux) https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/01/02/that-hard-to-find-textinfo-inf/ Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:54:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: greg laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/01/02/that-hard-to-find-textinfo-inf/#comment-2462 Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:54:14 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/01/02/that-hard-to-find-textinfo-inf/#comment-2462 Lucas,Now that Macs run on *nix, they are certainly more stable than ever before. :)I actually like Macs quite a bit. As I’ve said before, I don’t like Aqua, and for various reasons can’t use it.It is true that a run of the mill Linux installation doing typical things on typical hardware does not require any editing of text based configuration files, but it is also true that Linux is a system for Linux-people (and not everyone is) much in the same way that a Mac is for Mac people.Windows, on the other hand, is the system forced on us by marketing and fear tactics. I personally view the Mac and Linux world as the collective good place populated by the good guys.

]]> By: Lucas https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/01/02/that-hard-to-find-textinfo-inf/#comment-2461 Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:10:28 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/01/02/that-hard-to-find-textinfo-inf/#comment-2461 Terminal can be found in /Applications/Utilities in finder. I have it in my dock, and it is one of my most frequently used applications. I find it useful in file management, programming, text editing, or ssh-ing. To upload data, it’s usually ftp, sftp or scp.I’m a Mac user, and I find your posts interesting. Occasionally, they are useful. I think I have a similar view of Linux that many Linux fanatics have of Macs. I tried Linux for almost 3 years (from 1999-2001). I found it annoying to use, and frequently difficult to configure. It’s not that I’m opposed to text configuration files, but for most of the very basic things I do with a computer, it’s so much easier to just use a Mac and use the GUI than to mess around with a bunch of config files in /etc. (For example, it took me about 10 minutes to go from ignorance to sharing my printer with my GF’s Windows machine. A similar trick on Linux several years ago took me several hours.) I’ve heard that Linux distributions have gotten very good in the intervening 6 years, but my computer works fine. I’m fine with that. Maybe we should all be fine with whatever (non-M$) operating system choices others make. Can’t we all just get along? 😉

]]> By: dave X https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/01/02/that-hard-to-find-textinfo-inf/#comment-2460 Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:01:56 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/01/02/that-hard-to-find-textinfo-inf/#comment-2460 ‘apt-get install dwww’Then you get a cgi-driven set of web pages on your system accessible through http://localhost/dwww/ that combines man, texinfo, and the /usr/share/doc/ information. It is searchable, and provides nice related documentation all in an integrated interface.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/01/02/that-hard-to-find-textinfo-inf/#comment-2459 Wed, 02 Jan 2008 09:30:56 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/01/02/that-hard-to-find-textinfo-inf/#comment-2459 Frank: I’ll put that on my list of things Frank wants me to do.Seriously, I never met a Mac person who wanted the tiniest bit of information from me. All you need to do if you have a mac is click on something with your two button mouse and it will work.I would like to know a little more. Saturday, when the mac would not shut down because of a piece of software was running, and that software could not be found on the Aqua task bar, it would have been nice to know how to get to a terminal.But it was easer to yank the plug out of the wall.

]]> By: Frank Oswalt https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/01/02/that-hard-to-find-textinfo-inf/#comment-2458 Wed, 02 Jan 2008 07:27:39 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/01/02/that-hard-to-find-textinfo-inf/#comment-2458 Since you post on Linux from time to time, it wouldn’t hurt to learn a little bit about the differences between it and Mac OS X, so that you don’t have to qualify all mentions of the latter with lots of caveats in those posts.

]]> By: Craig Pennington https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/01/02/that-hard-to-find-textinfo-inf/#comment-2457 Wed, 02 Jan 2008 07:06:54 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/01/02/that-hard-to-find-textinfo-inf/#comment-2457

Ed is installed on my system. Get it outta here!!!

But “Ed is the standard text editor!”
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wq

]]> By: Jeremy Henty https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/01/02/that-hard-to-find-textinfo-inf/#comment-2456 Wed, 02 Jan 2008 06:33:30 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/01/02/that-hard-to-find-textinfo-inf/#comment-2456 *ahem*It’s texinfo, not textinfo.

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