[GLLUG] Meeting Thursday, September 28

[Caleb Cushing]

remind me to refute this in my presentation, because, sorry tom, this
is simply untrue, or irrelavant most commands make more sense to me
than in other os's and proprietary has names that are just as weird or
make less sense.

> The command-line grants great power and refined control but must be used
> wisely or one might 'rm -rf /' and lose everything.  What's really
> mysterious is why some of the commands are so weirdly named (e.g. 'ls' =
> directory listing?!  'Samba' = network sharing?!).  The answer?  That's
> the average Linux programmer for you - weird names for everything
> instead of picking names that make sense.  Weird names make it hard to
> find the command-line you are looking for but it's okay...that's what
> Google and 3 hours of searching to obtain the correct "incantation" are
> for.  Or you can come to the meeting and learn from those who have done
> the Google searching already.
>
> <grin>
>
> (That's my weak attempt at humor.  Open Source programmers _DO_ pick
> some of the strangest names for their projects...which can make the
> right project difficult to find unless you know the name in advance.)