Spif wrote:
UNIX? user hostile? where have you been lately?
Well, maybe unix gets its reputation for being hostile because of things like * many commands don't work fully (find, for example) * a large portion choke on input that isn't "expected" * many more do extremely poor input checking, * the configuration files are bizarre * different version have command with different options (stty everything, ps -ef vs. ps -aux, etc.) * each version is slightly different (ever try porting a non-trivial program? Look at some available large software and examine the #ifdef #define #endif statements; look at the differences in system calls. Hell, look at the "config" program that comes with PERL - 80K of stuff to build a make file for the flavor of UNIX you are using!) * the commands don't combine well (often uuencode + sendmail == garbage) * many commands accept a slightly different regular expression syntax than the shell does * the commands aren't built with ease of use in mind. For example, to kill a process under unix requires that I know it's process id. How do I find that? Run another command...
ever hear of X windows?
X-Windows is an extreme pain to get working. Sure, if you buy your unix workstation the manufacturer will pre-install it. Just try setting it up from scratch.