[wellylug] The importance of command line applications

[Jethro carr]

On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 00:35 +1300, Steven Mulvay wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have an opinion about the importance of command line applications that I'd like to share with you all to see what you think. I think that the usefulness and versatility of command line applications is starting to become under appreciated. I think it's sad that gui applications are being valued over command line applications because in many cases command line  applications can do just as good a job as their gui counterparts, if not better! For example, someone once said to me "Steven why don't you use Synaptic? Aptitude is old and crappy." Aptitude may be old but I don't see anything wrong with it. I don't need a graphics-bloated interface just to download and install software. In many cases my downloads take a long time, in these situations I often boot into run-level 3, (text-only mode) run aptitude and go watch TV. Then the computer can just sit there downloading without the unnecessary overhang of X11. If I need to go out in a while and intend to shutdown the computer 
> once the downloading and installation is complete then loading X11 at any stage would be a complete waste of resources.
> 
> Please don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking X11 or any of it's window managers, (I probably wouldn't use Linux if it did not have X11) I just want to make sure that development of command line applications continues and that the shells do not get phased out like Microsoft phased out DOS.
> 
> Who agrees with what I have said? Jethro, maybe we could have a website poll on the subject.

took me a while, but I've done it. :-)

(I was busy working on an update, so I sort of left it for a while...)

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Jethro Carr <jethro.carr at jedolinux.com>


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