3 Linux and UNIX Overview Pretty Much Everything You Need to Know About Linux and UNIX to Follow the Rest of This Book

Introduction

My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;Coral is far more red than her lips’ red:If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.I have seen roses damask’d, red and white,But no such roses see I in her cheeks;And in some perfumes is there more delightThan in the breath that from my mistress reeks....And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare.

William Shakespeare, Sonnet 130

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