快乐的Linux命令行

　　I want to tell you a story. 我想给大家讲个故事。 No， not the story of how， in 1991， Linus Torvalds wrote the first version of the Linux kernel. You can read that story in lots of Linux books. Nor am I going to tell you the story of how， some years earlier， Richard Stallman began the GNU Project to create a free Unix-like operating system. That’s an important story too， but most other Linux books have that one， as well. 故事内容不是 Linus Torvalds 在 1991 年怎样写了 Linux 内核的第一个版本，因为这些内容你可以在许多 Linux 书籍中读到。我也不是来告诉你，更早之前，Richard Stallman 是如何开始 GNU 项目，设计了一个免费的类 Unix 的操作系统。那也是一个很有意义的故事，但大多数 Linux 书籍也讲到了它。 No， I want to tell you the story of how you can take back control of your computer. 我想告诉大家一个你如何才能夺回计算机管理权的故事。 When I began working with computers as a college student in the late 1970s， there was a revolution going on. The invention of the microprocessor had made it possible for ordinary people like you and me to actually own a computer. It’s hard for many people today to imagine what the world was like when only big business and big government ran all the computers. Let’s just say， you couldn’t get much done. 在 20 世纪 70 年代末，我刚开始和计算机打交道时，正进行着一场革命，那时的我还是一名大学生。微处理器的发明，使普通老百姓（就如你和我）真正拥有一台计算机成为可能。今天，人们难以想象，只有大企业和强大的政府才能够拥有计算机的世界，是怎样的一个世界。简单说，你做不了多少事情。 Today， the world is very different. Computers are everywhere， from tiny wristwatches to giant data centers to everything in between. In addition to ubiquitous computers， we also have a ubiquitous network connecting them together. This has created a wondrous new age of personal empowerment and creative freedom， but over the last couple of decades something else has been happening. A single giant corporation has been imposing its control over most of the world’s computers and deciding what you can and cannot do with them. Fortunately， people from all over the world are doing something about it. They are fighting to maintain control of their computers by writing their own software. They are building Linux.