pagsz's Journal: CIS 370 Lab, Week One

So here I am in the first lab for my CIS 370: Design of Operating Systems course. The focus of this lab is Unix (which is cool, for at the current time I know just about nothing about Unix). Today's first lab has focused on a few basic commands; mkdir, pwd, ls, cd, cat, rm, rmdir, cp, mv, head, tail, and date thus far.

It's just an introduction to the basic commands and an opportunity to play around with them. So I created and deleted a few directories and files, checked my directory every fifth command, and generally screwed around for almost an hour (of course, interspersed with that was updating and previewing this post).

That's all for today, so once I get this journal post done I think I shall be heading off to work (I want to get in early to see if anyone will be there, grumble grumble grumble)
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As I mentioned before, the computers here are running Linux. Red Hat 7.3 to be precise. Today, I've gotten my first taste of GNOME. It's a lot more like Windows than I expected. It didn't take me that long to get used to the interface. The other ins and outs of the system will no doubt take a bit longer. Anyway, I am now absolutely sure that my next system will be running Linux (for a while, I had thought about going Mac. If you recall, I mentioned getting a taste of Mac OS X in the First Day of Class post).