On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan <sir...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ok I have been working in IT network field since 7 years and just one and > half year back i have started exploring Linux and I believe, someone said to > me lately that if you start loving black and white terminal then you will > never look back to Windows GUI.
b/w terminals are lame, most terminals support (at least) 256 colors, so use them - i like a bright blue prompt with [user@host : pwd] (actually, sometimes each field is a different color if i feel like playing). and a bright yellow cursor. i like my black background though. > I literally can experience this thing at the > stage I am standing with Linux. As I consider myself a newbie in Linux but > according to my previous experience if i don’t practice I will forget things > very easy (as there are tons of commands to remember which I will forget > with less or 0 practice). so, install it as your desktop environment, use it for your servers, use it as low cost or backup routers (i'd go bsd for this but...). > so i am here to ask all the old Pros that how you > guys manage to remember all the commands and practice all the previous work. i remember the basics really. the rest will come as you have a problem you bang your head against for a day and then find there is a command that solves it - you don't really forget after that. seriously, (besides built-in bash or zsh commands) i probably use ls, echo, cat, file, vim, chown, chmod, nmap, lsof, iptables, ssh (ssh-keygen etc too), screen (trying tmux), perl, gdb, gcc, make, service, apt-get, yum, chkconfig, git, find, xargs, grep. what's that, about 20 commands? i even included project specific commands (and forgot others for managing vms etc) for dealing with code and network stuff. > Since after the deployment of some Linux services there is only the log > which i have to see for further errors. So how it is possible to keep in my > mind all the old stuff and along with that I can move forward with the new > goals. actually, you really shouldn't have to review logs much (see graylog2.... or splunk if you feel like paying). and really, i'm going through the opposite change as you - i'm trying to get into doing more things with code on windows and can't remember simple stuff like netsh commands and the like for basic config (because i hadn't done much with windows for ~3 years). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cah_obien+mtr9kjaerxfzrg0u9z1kqtam+gzo_41qjm0dfp...@mail.gmail.com
