Verily I say unto thee, that Chris Ahlstrom spake thusly:
> The Debian Almquist Shell (dash) will become the standard shell
> that should, among other things, help with faster bootups.
>
> Oh, I see, it executes scripts faster than bash and depends on fewer
> libraries.
It also lacks certain bash builtins, such as "let", and therefore causes
no end of confusion for Ubuntu and Debian users trying to use scripts
built for other systems (as I discovered recently).
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K.
http://slated.org
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| "The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which
| the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf
| denounces him for the same act, as the destroyer of liberty.
| Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of
| the word liberty; and precisely the same difference prevails today
| among human creatures." ~ Abraham Lincoln
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Fedora release 8 (Werewolf) on sky, running kernel 2.6.26.8-57.fc8
22:52:40 up 74 days, 2:50, 5 users, load average: 0.01, 0.05, 0.01
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