shell, linux console, terminal, what's the difference?

[Owen Townend]

On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 19:21 -0600, James Macele Jones wrote:
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> I've been using Linux for a little while now, and I had a friend who
> just installed kubuntu ask me what the differences are between a shell,
> linux console, and a terminal were? I'm embarrassed to say I don't know
> the difference myself. I've always used them interchangeably.
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> Have I been mistaken, is there some difference between them?
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> Thx
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> James (Macele) Jones
> macele.jones at gmail.com
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Hey,
  The shell is the actual command interpreter eg bash, pdksh, csh, etc.
  I believe the other two are the screen/window(s) where you type in
commands. I think a console would be pure CLI (eg ctrl-alt-f1) and a
terminal could be in a window manager (eg xterm).

cheers,
Owen.