En el principio... fue la línea de comandos

Print book, 158 pages

Spanish language

Published Jan. 4, 2003 by Traficantes de Sueños.

OCLC Number:
806408943

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(12 reviews)

Existe todo un empeño por parte de los fabricantes de software en ocultar como funcionan realmente los ordenadores. Las metáforas visuales, las interfaces gráficas simplifican el uso de los PC, pero al precio de que se viva la tecnología como algo mistificado, mágico, sin conexión alguna entre causas y efectos. Por el contrario una corriente que se remonta a los orígenes de la informática personal y a las primeras comunidades de hackers nunca ha dejado de usar la interfaz de la línea de comandos. No por un empeño nostálgico, no por una pretensión elitista, sino por un deseo de libertad, de no renuncia a la creatividad contenida en la producción y modificación de los códigos. El heredero de esta comunidad, que trata de devolver el poder al usuario, es sin duda el movimiento del software libre. Su buque insignia: GNU/Linux.

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If I had read this in 1999 I probably would have installed BeOS the next day instead of SUSE Linux, which I was knee deep in at the time. Even if BeOS is now long gone, the author had it right about OSes tending to become free, and it appears to live on as the open source Haiku. This is still a good introduction to these kind of dramas, even if the companies involved have since shifted positions. And it's a fine ode to the command line, which still holds strong under the hood, where I continue to work with it daily. Here's to the TTY!

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This is an old essay, one that he had written back in the late 90's early 00's. It was put into book form but you can find the original essay still on the web for free. I just wanted to read it again and have a copy that didn't require an internet connection for.

It was fun reading it again considering the changes in OS and the explosive growth of mobile computing. I would very much like to see an update to this including new chapters on the newest mobile platforms.

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