June 2005
Intermediate to advanced
1560 pages
45h 7m
English
If you're not familiar with Unix, you've probably heard and read enough to have developed any number of preconceptions regarding what using it will be like. Almost all of them are probably at least a bit intimidating. You've probably heard that Unix commands are cryptic and that the learning curve is steep. Even worse, it uses a command-line interface—you've actually got to type at the thing to tell it what to do, and we all know how archaic that mode of controlling a machine is.
It might be archaic, but that does not mean that there's anything wrong with it or that it's not the best way to accomplish certain tasks. We know—many of you poked fun at that other operating system for years because its unfortunate ...
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