[briealeida]

I was just reading an article about zsh and it got me thinking. I've been using bash for the overwhelming majority of the time and so are a lot of people. Probably without thinking about it / realizing it.

http://friedcpu.wordpress.com/2007/0...ull-ever-need/

[MCole]

BASH, it's the only one I really use... and barely at that!

[lotuseclat79]

Hi Brie,

You beat me to it!

To answer your question, Ultimate Ubuntu comes with bash and dash, but I am looking to upgrade to zsh after reading the article as I tend to like some features in each of the shells it draws from.

I must say, after having the wonderful experience of using Synaptic package manager to update to Firefox 2.0.0.5 release and saving the files in a compressed tar file - I've integrated my initialization script to include the update - I will have no problemos with getting zsh installed via Synaptic.

I had looked at various ways in the Ubuntu forums for getting Firefox 2.0.0.5 and considered each, but none of them equaled Synaptic for ease of use.

-- Tom

P.S. Checkout this for Comparison of computer shells.

[briealeida]

I checked out that link earlier. It's pretty sweet. Helped make my decision. The shells to the right of the table . . . not sure how I feel about them.

Anyway, I've been using zsh for a day now and I'm hooked. I'm not going back to bash. I mean, most people could be using zsh and not know but zsh has so much locked potential. I think it's way underrated. Google 'zsh lovers' and you'll see it's totally a cult thing still.

. . . but everything has it's time to shine.