User Feedback :: Why I have a technophilic relationship with dsl

Well I suppose regulars may have seen one or two of my posts
- these tend to be at varying levels of understanding or otherwise.

I've been busy elsewhere lately and it's all because of dsl. During many years of Win & Mac, and after several early years of ye olde system languages at university many years ago (I can't tell you how insanely awful punch card input with a large assembly language program was - several runs just to get the typos out!). Would have been easier to rewire Eniac. (The year after me got interactive terminals!).

I never had the slightest inclination to learn any scripting or probe any deeper into the workings of the evil box.
I downloaded dsl initially because it was a small download cf. big distros and I had a nagging
unexplained desire to fiddle about with linux. I had heard, and had an inkling, that linux was the way to really start learning a bit more about the technology and I was right.

DSL, with its minimalist philosophy and clean lines, intrigued me and I have found it's just not good enough with dsl not to take an interest in the command line, so I've been teaching myself bash scripting (which I like), and am now 85% way through the python tutorial also (object oriented was initially v strange, like Venusian, but I'm
getting the hang of it).

Groping around with dsl and bash/python is quite educational - I want to know more. When I can write a few workable python scripts I might even look further.

I'm even half toying with the idea of returning to some further (probably online) study in the IT area if I can deal with all the practical hurdles. But there's a lot to consider ...including the stability (or otherwise) of my present employment and minor details like eating...

Anyway my grateful thanks to all the dsl developers and supporters for their efforts.

Just to let you know it's had an impact on me and my interest in the technology...

Regards

WDf

Welcome to the Revolution!!!

Glad to see you have a new interest

Brian
AwPhuch

Hey Woof,

Just curios, how old are you? The reason I ask is I also would like to learn bash scripting, but don't know if this old dog can learn new tricks at 48. I can kind of relate to your post, but never could have put it so eloquently. DSL has rekindled my interest in the command line that I lost in the DOS days. Nowadays most people are nothing more than applience operaters when it comes to computing, only clicking but not understanding whats going on under the hood. I wrote a one line shell script to remove the Wine tmp file on shut down on my Yoper box, and was quite proud of myself, but it just boggles my mind to see some of the scripts that other people write that go on for 100's of lines. I would like to learn how to do that, but don't really know where to start. Google maybe?

This is where I learned to write shell scripts

It's a pretty easy tutorial to learn from.

-J.P.

Thanks Saidin,

I will check this site out. Just at first glance, I already know some of the things it talked about, like chmod the script and things like that, so maybe it won't be so hard.

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