missing programs, books for beginners?

[Florian Diesch]

Jay Daniels <tux at myt60.net> writes:

> On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 05:16 +0200, Florian Diesch wrote:
>> 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.
>> 
> I believe you mean dash.
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2009-07-11 21:27 /bin/sh -> dash

dash ist used for /bin/sh, but bash is used as the default login shell for users.


   Florian
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