A Normal Guy's Perspective on Linux

During a 1992 demo of the NeXTStep 3.0 operating system , Steve Jobs showed off an app that allowed users to run DOS programs inside an application window. He opened Lotus123 (one of the many early spreadsheet apps that Excel crushed out of existence) and manually typed in the command-line instructions to open a specific file. "Wonderful user interface" he sarcastically remarked. To Jobs, it was…