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Ping Wales: Linux 2005 Kicks Off with Something for the Techies

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 6, 2005

“Linux 2005 kicked off today in Swansea with a day of tutorials.
I decided to attend ‘Advanced Shell Skills, using Zsh,’ a decision
which marked me out as almost unique–there were three others in
the audience and two presenting, the vast majority having decided
that the day-long networking course held greater appeal.

“I must admit to a complete lack of familiarity with zsh. On GNU
or GNU-like systems I usually use GNU’s Bourne Again Shell (bash),
while on BSD systems I tend to use tcsh or pdksh…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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