On Wednesday 26 August 2009 10:00:06 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> The point about shells has already been made, but some people have got a
> bit sidetracked. Shells are command-interpreters; they mediate between the
> user and the kernel. Applications in Unix, as has already been said, get
> to run because a shell is spawned by the fork() system process. This is as
> true for GUI applications as for command-line text ones.
[snip]
<old fart mode> not with standing, not stupid, so I do know that opining that
GUI s are slow and cumbersome compared to the CLI will provoke ummm response.
What did surprise me was that the list of things GUIs *are* good at was not
emphasized at all. Kinda like going to the YR12 ball in a F1 car rather than a
stretch limo.
Hearking back to Marghanita's original query: shells are an important part of
the system and Wine, Java etc are apps not shells.
Thanks for lively criticism :-)
James
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