[SLL] faking Unix knowledge? pretend to know open source Unix?

[Brian Hatch]

Around about 2009-01-10 18:44 -0600, Jeremy C. Reed recommended:

> Here's a presentation idea for LFNW (anyone want to roll with this?) for 
> an audience of spouses of the Linux geeks. (For example, my wife: she uses 
> open source Unix every day for 8 years or so, but knows zero Unix.) The 
> short presentation would not really be focused to encourage the audience 
> to continue to learn, but just give them some jargon and examples and 
> reasons of what makes Unix and why open source. Maybe the presentation 
> title, could be: "Linux and Unix for the non-geek ... and always a 
> non-geek". 

I think I'm closer to understanding what you're after now.

I'd start with some of the basic rules of unix:

  * Everything should do one thing and do it well.
  * No, you shouldn't do more than that one thing, didn't you listen?
  * Things should read files or stdin, should write stdout or files.
  * Pipes are the way to elegance.
  * Forks are cheap (these days).
  * Threads are cheap but trickier.
  * There's nothing wrong with a scripting language in the hands of a
    good programmer.
  * Java is never the right tool.
  * Never get in the middle of a vi/emacs holy war.
  * Geeks speak in the metasyntactic variables foo, bar, baz, qux, quux, ...
  * It doesn't need a GUI.
  * The proper remote administration tool is 'ssh', not 'a car'.
  * You can do more than one thing on a physical box - the mail server
    can be a webserver and/or a mail server too, they are not exclusive.
  * Don't virtualize for virtualization's sake.
  * A bit about the file security model - different users and groups.
  * Use sudo.  Don't log in as root.

That should be doable in 30 min.



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