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So tell me, what do you call the object drawn in this picture, taken from a popular Linux operating system?
Say my name.
Evil GUI bloat
The ugly truth.
It's a file.
Everything is a file!!
This mouse? Believe it or not, file.
/dev/input/mouse0or whatever number you may have if for some reason you have more of them. Plus the always present/dev/input/miceshared between all mouse devices.cat
/dev/input/mouse0Computer mouse or live mouse? Yes
Straight to file.
I've always enjoyed this about my pathetic attempts to get into *nix, but what are directors, then? Are they somehow a 'file' as well?
Honest question - I'm just a Windows doofus
you are correct, directories are 4kb files
Logically, everything stored to disc is a file. There are no physical folds or branching on a harddrive's platter. Everything is (this is simplified) listed one at a time, end to end sequentially. A directory is just a special text file that lists all the addresses to files that are logically "inside of it".
With journaling file systems (aka modern file systems), this is either replaced or superceeded by the journal.
Moreso, in Linux, most things are also logically treated as files. In Windows, some settings are stored in a special database known as the registry--Linux has not. It just has text files. In windows, devices are in the device manager, in Linux, devices are just another directory. In Windows you have a special task manager to view open processes, in Linux we have /proc which is a virtual directory. Windows: user permissions are managed with the active directory application. Linux: file permissions. etc.
This means, instead of using special apps to view things, you can, if so inclined, just navigate and look at files using the usual terminal.
Though to add: many things in your file system are listed as βfilesβ in a directory, but are completely virtual with varying ways on what they do when written to/read from. (Also, linux has streams and files, not only files) E.g. /dev/null will read zeros, and discard data written to. But it has no physical backing.
The academic truth.
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
The recursive truth. π
HΓ€ngeregister.
And I think that's beautiful.
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... You are a folder.
This is an array of pretty pixels laid out in a fashion to appeal to the human eyes.
... Directory?
OK, I see you're having some trouble. No sweat. We're all friends here. Many of us don't get it on the first try. Let me help you. It's a symbolic representation of an actual physical object which you can buy here today. There's a nice description at the store page with the following pic along with it:
Oh shit when did they start selling directory themed novalty gifts?
OH it's a PATH!
You wouldn't download a folder
The fuck I wouldn't! I'm gonna do it now out of spite!
I call them yaru-icons. Just for all my Linux buddies without ubuntu.
I call them icons
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