From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,PLING_QUERY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 7e858a97 for ; Sat, 12 Oct 2019 12:00:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id D58939BCA8; Sat, 12 Oct 2019 22:00:37 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F54C9B8A5; Sat, 12 Oct 2019 22:00:12 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id DBC089B8A5; Sat, 12 Oct 2019 22:00:09 +1000 (AEST) X-Greylist: delayed 333 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at minnie.tuhs.org; Sat, 12 Oct 2019 22:00:09 AEST Received: from marmaro.de (marmaro.de [176.28.23.198]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0585A9B885 for ; Sat, 12 Oct 2019 22:00:08 +1000 (AEST) Received: by marmaro.de (masqmail 0.3.6-dev, from userid 1000) id 1iJFyl-7yr-00 for ; Sat, 12 Oct 2019 13:54:35 +0200 To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org In-reply-to: <20191010205546.GA29154@minnie.tuhs.org> References: <20191010205546.GA29154@minnie.tuhs.org> Comments: In-reply-to Warren Toomey message dated "Fri, 11 Oct 2019 06:55:46 +1000." MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <30680.1570881275.1@marmaro.de> Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2019 13:54:35 +0200 From: markus schnalke Message-ID: <1iJFyl-7yr-00@marmaro.de> Subject: Re: [TUHS] What was your "Aha, Unix!" moment? X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" Hoi, my Aha moments were (in no particular order): - Users can change their login shell! -- This surely was the most impressing discovery for me. - Users are regarded as programmers and are provided with structurally all possiblities, i.e. you can recreate the whole system to your preferences within your home directory and use that as the default. - The shell as a fluid way from dumb programm calling to full programming, where any user can float up and down the level, based on personal skills and the problem at hand. - Chroot (Linux from Scratch) - To me it's actually more a philosophy behind it all, and UNIX itself ist more a demonstration and the scientific experiment that helped to uncover and shape this philosophy. The Aha moment was that there is so much behind it. - Those guys implemented about anything there is about an operating system and application tools, and -- what is even more impressive -- in each of those fields (typesetting, fonts, chess, languages, and so on for a long time), they went deep and invented there as well. Such a small group and so hugely much and deep output! meillo