Why do I use Linux?

[Jeff Garland]

On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 12:41:31 -0700, Eric \"Shubes\" wrote
> Vaughn Treude wrote:
> 
> > I cut my teeth on Unix and "grew up" with the command line. One of the
> > first things I do on a Windoze box is to bring up the command prompt. 
> > And it's aggravating when I habitually type in a Linux command, and of
> > course, the retarded Redmond OS doesn't recognize it.
> 
> Sounds to me like you could use some Unix-type commands on DOS. I 
> remember having such a thing 10+ years ago. I googled and found this:
> http://short.stop.home.att.net/freesoft/unix.htm
> There are probably others too. I remember it being very cool using 
> unix commands on DOS. :)

These are pretty nice -- thought there was even a windows installer out there
somewhere, but can't see it now...

http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/

and, of course, there's always cygwin.

Jeff