Episode 79: The Shellz
News & Personal Updates
- 0:06:02 Linux Mint 11 LXDE is released
http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1802
- 0:06:31 Linux Mint 11 LXDE comes with a new Software Manager and Desktop Settings Tool.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Linux-Mint-11-LXDE-Brings-a-New-Software-Manager-and-Desktop-Settings-Tool-217147.shtml
- 0:08:06 LMDE Gnome and XFCE RC’s 201108 respins released
http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1807
http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_debian.php
- 0:16:30 Google buys Motorola Mobility for $12.5b
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-20092362-94/google-to-buy-motorola-mobility-for-$12.5b/?tag=topStories
- 0:25:41 As Linux celebrates it’s 20 anniversary in Vancouver with LinuxCon, Debian quietly celebrates it’s 18th birthday
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon
http://lists.debian.org/debian-news/2011/msg00042.html
- 0:29:00 The Gimp 2.8, with single-pane mode is nearing completion
http://ostatic.com/blog/gimp-single-window-mode-almost-ready-hardware-acceleration-planned
Main Topic
- 0:31:00 Linux Shells
Websites of the Week
- http://zshwiki.org/home/start – All things zsh
- http://www.tcsh.org/Welcome – All things tcsh
- http://www.gnu.org/s/bash/ – All things bash
Tip of the Week
- Print to PDF – The PDF printer produces blank PDF documents. To work around this problem, launch the “Printing” tool from the menu, remove the PDF printer and add a new one.
Announcements
- The Nottingham LUG is holding a talk by Richard Stallman August 24th in Nottingham, UK http://stallman.eventbrite.com/
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http://tasktaste.com/projects/Enselic/gimp-2-8 is the place to go to find the progress on GIMP 2.8 release.
-Sonic
Also you might want to read the notes for the RC of LMDE respin better. It strongly suggests that the snapshot rolling is implemented out of the box.
-Sonic
Thanks for the tip on disabling the grid item in compiz. I’ve been trying to figure out how to do that for months now.
How Bash Shell interprets a command ??
http://flossstuff.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/how-bash-shell-interprets-a-command/
bash looks through
1. Redirection
2. Aliases
3. Expansion
4. Shell Function
5. Shell Builtin
6. Hash table
7. PATH variable
to run a command.
ex: bash has a builtin named time, but you might also have a binary /usr/bin/time. assuming you do not have any function or alias named time, the bash builtin will be run if you do ‘ time some_process ‘ in a terminal. if you want to use /usr/bin/time, you must fully declare the path.
Bourne shell wasn’t the first shell.
Thompson shell was the first unix shell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson_shell
I’d been meaning to post for the past week but I didn’t have enough online time to do it. 🙁
I tried listening to the ‘Cast on my new phone (Samsung Restore on Virgin Mobile) since I now have a decent web browser and free data but the stupid Opera Mini 6 doesn’t know how to open mp3 files and the browser doesn’t do Flash. Hopefully early next month I’ll get a microSD card and get Bolt on the phone. I know the Bolt browser does Flash.
I definitely want to check out Z shell. Can someone post a link to the show notes? I don’t see it above and I’m not sure if I’ll be able to dig up the URI from the show too easily. Thankee!
Never mind on the URI. I just found it: http://www.zsh.org/ Good thing, too, because I couldn’t quite catch what the URI was on the show.