Unix

Recently I leafed through a conversation between LWN and Richard Stallman from about two decades ago. Even at that early stage his remarkably confrontational style already stood out. LWN writes in “Interview with Richard M. Stallman |”: Proprietary software is antisocial, so developing it is wrong. In most cases, the user of proprietary software is expected to promise not to share with anyone else. It’s wrong to make that agreement, wrong to keep it if you have made it, and especially wrong to lure someone else into making such a promise. Using part of the proceeds of this antisocial activity for a worthy cause cannot justify it. ...

I’m by no means a Bash pro and feel like I have to look up every third command. When it comes to access permissions on Unix systems, I also keep forgetting the right command. The tool Chmod Calculator helps me here — I had to use it in my last Raspberry project. Good tools need to be self-explanatory, and that’s true for the Chmod Calculator. Just click together what you need and paste the command it spits out into the terminal. ...