missing programs, books for beginners?

[Vincent Trouilliez]

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If I am out of date please someone correct me ! ;-)

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Vince