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[Dave Froble]

On 3/8/2022 2:20 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-03-08, abrsvc <dansabrservices at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> On Tuesday, March 8, 2022 at 1:58:00 PM UTC-5, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> On 2022-03-08, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.... at telia.com> wrote:
>>>> Den 2022-03-08 kl. 02:53, skrev Arne Vajhøj:
>>>>>
>>>>> I am aware of it.
>>>>>
>>>>> But it is not my impression that it is widely used.
>>>>
>>>> Can't use it since it requires Python 3.
>>>>
>>> I had to install Python 3 on my Android phone recently and wanted
>>> to run some proper Unix CLI tools on the phone to go with it. :-)
>>>
>>> I did it by installing PRoot into a supported terminal emulator
>>> running on Android, then unpacking a barebones Alpine Linux userland
>>> image on top of that, and then installing Python 3 from the
>>> Alpine software repository.
>>>
>>> That's the kind of thing you can now do outside of the VMS world...
>>
>> And where did you learn how to do that?
>>
>> A manual, someone else showing you?
>
> My Linux/Unix knowledge allowed me to search for the kinds of tools
> I thought I would need to achieve this, and was followed by reading
> the documentation for those tools once I found them.
>
> Once I had the barebones userland installed on top of the emulation
> layer, everything else was just standard Linux system management and
> user usage concepts.
>
> I had never used Alpine Linux before, but in the Linux world, while
> some management commands and capabilities differ between different
> Linux distributions, the general core concepts remain the same.
>
> Simon.
>

So, you were born with this knowledge about Linux?

I do so dislike double standards ...

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