will 11.04 replace bash

[Colin Law]

On 8 November 2010 16:30, Doug <dmcgarrett at optonline.net> wrote:
> On 11/8/2010 11:10 AM, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
>> On Monday 08 November 2010 04:47:09 pm Tapas Mishra wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 9:01 PM, claudiomet<claudiomet at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>> Unity replacing Bash ? ...NO! are different tings.
>>>>
>>>> Bash is a shell for text environment like csh, tcsh, zsh, ksh, etc.
>>>> Unity is a graphical environment like gnome, kde, xfce, lxde, etc.
>>>
>>> Ok thanks I was confused on that part of the article.
>>
>> Besides, Unity is only supposed to become the "default" desktop, so you just
>> choose another one if you don't like it (from what I have seem I'm not going
>> to use either Unity northe Gnome Shell).
>>
>> Thierry
>>
> Please don't confuse "shell" with "GUI."  The shell is the command set
> that Unix/Linux uses to instruct the computer what to do.  As a previous
> note says, there are several shells available, which differ to a small
> degree in how the commands must be phrased, and also to a small degree
> in their capability.  Bash (Bourne Again SHell) is Linux's version of
> the Unix Bourne shell.  It includes a few things that the Bourne does
> not, like "less". You can also run one of the other shells, but you
> probably have to install it first--most distros don't install it
> automatically, like Bash.
>
> GUI is the graphical user interface. If you want to use a different
> shell, you might have to run it _under_ bash, as a subshell, so as to
> keep the GUI happy, since it is controlled by the bash command set.

Unfortunately, Gnome Shell is a GUI, see http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell

Colin