missing programs, books for beginners?

[Florian Diesch]

Dan Farrell <dan at spore.ath.cx> writes:

> On Sat, 01 Aug 2009 12:18:28 -0700
> Sharon Ruck <ruckster at curlewagape.com> wrote:
>
>> Howdy!
>> I'm new to Linux, my ex was the guru.  I have worked a tiny amount in 
>> Unix about 10 years ago in Antarctica.  Windows xp expert (installs, 
>> repairs, etc), piece of junk....
>
> Ubuntu departs from the UNIX world in many ways; one of them is to make
> lots of stuff graphical.  

Just like the desktop UNIX versions (OS X, Solaris, Irix, ...) do. 


> If you want to hang out in command line world, may I recommend you use
> bash as your shell rather than that hideous default, whatever it is,
> in ubuntu?

bash is the default. I recommend zsh for interactive use.





   Florian
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