missing programs, books for beginners?

[Siggy Brentrup]

On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 20:21 -0700, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:

> 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)

Bash has been essential in Debian from the very beginnings.  IMHO that
was an error that wasn't noticed until early in this decade. It's a
constant cause for discussion on Debian developer MLs since years. If
you don't want to break all those user shell scripts relying on
/bin/sh being bash, this error can't be easily corrected if you don't
fork a new disto (with a new set of essential packages) like Ubuntu
did.

What a sysadmin or box owner chooses as the default login shell is a
different story, I prefer zsh over bash for it's enhanced completion
features.

Siggy (DD '95-'04)
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