Open Source in Education

It’s as easy as Applications –> Accessories –> Terminal and type in a command (option) or filename. You can access folders and servers throughout the world, move files, open, close, and force quit applications, create files and folders, and everything else you might want to do on your computer. You can do more in the command line than you can in the GUI (the graphical user interface–Windows/Vista, OS X for Mac, and Fedora/Gnome).

FLOSS Manual–Linux Command Line

The GUI is simply a pretty and user friendly way of doing what is done in the command line behind the scenes. When you click on an application or folder, the computer runs that command through a click instead of using a typed command line. The GUI prevents you from seeing files that you don’t need to use the computer. If you can do simple “command line” stuff, you have truly graduated to being a “geek”, one step away from becoming a “hacker”. Remember a “hacker” is a geek using command line to solve programming problems. A “cracker” is a person with hacker skills using her/his talents to do bad things.

While in the FLOSS Manuals, check out all the other great open source user information.