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  It was the year 2020, ten years after the great operating system wars of 2010, after the great American recession of 2009, after the world fell into chaos only to stand up again within a world of enlightenment, where Windows was cast out of the light and into the murky depths of obscurity; in its wake, Linux stood with all the glory and valor of a would-be king amongst commoners, of a hero amongst cowards. It was a world where many nations used open source, where many nations proudly turned their backs on a proprietary past, where many nations said, "enough is enough" and that today and tomorrow and for the rest of their lives, they would use a better, faster, more efficient operating system, and they would no longer be forced into madness at the feet of a mega corporation and its buggy, slow, and wasteful operating system. Many nations that is, except for the once powerful America, wherein many office buildings, many hospitals, many schools, there was still running that last dynasty of the former mega corp, Windows XP, some nineteen years after its initial release.
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What's all the FUD about? |
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 fish is a user friendly command-line shell. For those new to Linux, the term shell refers to a program that executes other programs. If you open a terminal and type ls followed by a return, you are opening up your default shell and using it to execute the program 'ls'. There are many UNIX/Linux shells; there's the Bourne shell, C Shell, Kornshell, Bash (Bourne Again) Shell, and as we discuss here, the friendly interactive shell (fish). Each shell's main purpose is to execute other programs, but they all have slightly different features/syntax. Bash is the most commonly used shell for Linux users, but we're talking about fish here, because it was built with new Linux users in mind. To install fish, if it's not already installed, check your packaging system for fish; if you're running Ubuntu, you can simply run "sudo apt-get install fish" in a terminal.
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It was announced on Monday that Nokia would be purchasing Trolltech, the company responsible for Qt (the software behind KDE, the popular Linux desktop environment). Qt is a cross-platform set of C++ libraries that enable programmers to design GUI (graphical user interface) applications in various operating systems without needing to force code to comply to said operating system's API. Nokia is largely interested in Qtopia, a Qt derivative, that Trolltech created specifically for use with consumer-level mobile phones.
DELL has started to offer Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) in notebooks geared for the home office or small business user starting at only $729 to include all the latest hardware. This is a very positive development and suggests that DELLs Linux computer is a success since they have now expanded the product offering to notebooks.
FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) is defined on wikipedia.org as a "tactic of rhetoric used in sales, marketing and public relations....a strategic attempt to influence public perception by disseminating negative (and vague) information". In layman's terms, it's a bunch of bull to scare people into doing what they want you to do. Linux and the Open Source community are no strangers to FUD. Anything free and open strikes cold, primival fear into the hearts of proprietary software makers everywhere. We invite you, the LinuxHow2 reader, to 