Linux! How much in this word, for the heart of Russian ...

    I began my acquaintance with the computer with the classic DOS. Agates, Spectrum and other evil spirits - this is so, pampering. Played toys, wrote in BASIC ... Yes, yes! I wrote in basic. I am ashamed now, but then I was young and stupid. Sorry, I won’t! :-)

    Okay, a little distracted. The REAL study of the computer began precisely with DOS and the wonderful and best book at that time: Figurnov. IBM PC for the user, 4th edition. (a stingy male nostalgic tear rolled down the unshaven cheek of the admin, i.e. me).

    It is no secret that licensed software in the USSR was impossible to get. Basically. If not for valiant pirates, then Russia would not have been a country of computer geniuses and nuggets. True, then it was called not piracy, but a simple exchange. Only here it is interesting: what would happen if pirated software (at that time) were brutally bugged? People would simply switch to Unix if they could find a free distribution kit and enjoy life. I have a bad history and I don’t remember if in 88 there were free Unixes? If yes, then an interesting question arises: could I start studying Unix then, and not many years later? The correct answer is YES! I absolutely did not care which command shows directories, ls or dir. If I had a book like the one mentioned above, I (and millions of people) would read it from cover to cover with the same success and would be a confident juzvere already in the early 90's.

    Pirates raised computer literacy in the USSR and Russia, but at the same time they planted small-soft production on a heroin needle. In general, the small ones should thank the pirates and sell offtopics for the price of 2 bucks per disk. Then more people will switch to licensed software, and then the profit will go only from sales volumes.

    When a person becomes addicted to drug addiction, he discovers what he did not notice before his addiction to drugs: butterflies, flowers, and just a beautiful life. It used to be familiar, but only plunged into the darkness of eternal fear, pain and the search for a new dose, and coming out of it, a person understands the joy of life. The same thing with the winders. While a person is sitting on Windows, he himself understands that Windows is complete shit, but it is almost impossible to jump off without help. I myself was not addicted to drugs, I sat on the soft. But I had the strength to switch to Linux and feel the thrill of working at the computer. After Windows, it’s easier to transfer to Unix with packages and gui than with a console in which you still need to compile gui. But this is the path to healing.

    Today at work I sat all day in the console. I had to lift Apache + php + muscle on a solarium 9 There was no access to the Internet, it was not possible to download all sorts of faxes and hautushki. I had to read a dock on 700 pages of the bourgeois language. This is gimorno, especially with imperfect knowledge of the language itself. This is unusual when completely different keyboard shortcuts work in the terminal ... But I really enjoyed entering commands like:
    ps -A | grep httpd | awk '{print $ 1} | xargs kill -9
    One of the admin admins passed by in Unix, as necessary, but not yet tears from the needle of melkosoft. He looked at my furious designs and said that this was not being treated. And this is precisely the way to healing!

    The console is very logical, efficient, concise and beautiful in its own way ... like a short sword of the Spartan. And on the other side of the scale are small soft. We released the corporate WSUS server on the Internet, it downloaded the updates and then drove it back to the isolated network. From it, updates automatically rolled onto the server and THESE PADLES STARTED AUTOMATICALLY DOWNLOADED !!!

    What happened after the simultaneous overload of both domain controllers, I'm afraid to describe. A server is a solid thing and does not like to fuss. And if it is a controller, then loading is even longer. And in the office 1,5k juzverej. When the database and application servers restarted ... Vaseline began to end.

    Logic, efficiency, user care? Empty sound for one famous company. Suppose that I work in Xs on a home machine, but the console window is always open. It is like a breath of freedom for a prisoner. Let this not be a real UNIX way. But looking at the variable size of the icons in the gnome, repositories, translucent and completely transparent “floating” menus and windows, and other graphic features of Xs, the soul simply rejoices and you begin to believe in the final victory of the Unix over the resident evil.

    I have a lot of friends who ask for help on computers and I am glad that in some weeks I manage to talk “try Linux” even to a couple of users. I will not cheat, I will not say that everyone immediately moved to Linux and demolished Windows. Someone in Linux stopped loading, someone wants to switch to it after setting up all the necessary software. But I myself have a time difference, 5 long years have passed between the disk donated to me and the Linux installed at home, as the only system.

    Yes, after installation, I had to modify Linux with a file. The default kernel occupies a significant place in the presence of 256 megabytes of RAM - I had to configure it for my hardware and throw out support for tons of unnecessary technologies. Mplayer is not worth it and I can not listen to mp3, mp4? This is fixable, no one has canceled the Internet yet. Disks work slowly after installation: the system is designed to work on any shit, so the mode is gentle. Type hdparm / sdparm and set the mode that supports your hardware. It all takes time, but it is logical.

    And the automatic reboot of the crowd of servers after installing patches, the admins in the server room, and the almost empty vaseline bucket - THIS IS NOT LOGIC !!! melkosoft - suks, bill gates - masday! :-)

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