Evolution of Shells in Linux (2011)

33 pointsposted a year ago
by todsacerdoti
(developer.ibm.com)

7 Comments

knowitnone

a year ago

article is from 2011. very meh

cduzz

a year ago

This sort of thing changes pretty slowly.

In the late 90s there were even heated opinions / discussions as to if it was worth while making debian support something other than bash as the /bin/sh provider.

Having gone through these changes, I think it's pretty interesting that we've landed on the anything-goes world we've got.

ashconnor

a year ago

Still I would expect for Fish to be mentioned in an article published today.

hulitu

a year ago

> Fish is considered an exotic shell since it does not adhere to POSIX shell standards, at the discretion of its maintainers

so mostly useless

ashconnor

a year ago

It has a pretty vocal user-base.

Gormo

a year ago

Care to explain?