missing programs, books for beginners?

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Sun, 8/2/09, Vincent Trouilliez <vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:

> From: Vincent Trouilliez <vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr>
> Subject: Re: missing programs, books for beginners?
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Sunday, August 2, 2009, 4:16 PM
> On Sun, 2 Aug 2009 16:04:37 -0500
> Dan Farrell <dan at spore.ath.cx>
> wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> I must be missing something here.. Ubuntu actually does use
> bash !
> Always did and still does as of Ubuntu 9.04, as far as I
> can see on my
> machine. Ubuntu fairly recently (a year or two ago ?)
> started using an
> additionnal shell, to speed boot scripts mainly, but the
> interactive
> shell, the one users get to interact with in a terminal
> window or
> console, is still bash.
> 
> If I am out of date please someone correct me ! ;-)
>
Autually Debian based shell script has been Bash(Default) at least as far back as Debian Woody bf2.4, my first Linux install. Beyond that I have no knowledge-:O)

Leonard Chatagnier
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