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BASH 4.0 Released
An anonymous reader writes "The widely used Bourne-Again Shell (BASH) version 4.0 is out. The new major release fixes several remaining bugs in the 3.x releases, and introduces a bunch of new features. The most notable new features are associative arrays, improvements to the programmable completion functionality, case-modifying word expansions, co-processes, support for the `**' special glob pattern, and additions to the shell syntax and redirections. The shell has been changed to be more rigorous about parsing commands inside command substitutions, fixing one piece of POSIX non-compliance. Most of us will probably wait for the distros to test the new version and upgrade gradually, but you always have the option of grabbing the source and compiling it yourself. Enjoy."
The Ubuntu and Fedora linux distribution uses Upstart as its init system, which uses Python scripts. So yeah, Python already took over from the boot loader for some.
http://upstart.ubuntu.com/
Shell scripting is obsolete technology. The only reason you'd use it is if you are a sysadmin who can't be bothered to learn something new and suffer from mindrot.
What's the point? It's worthless on my multi-touch screen. Only crusted headed, unbathed, girlfriendless uber geeks need to use the CLI. CLI's are so 1940's Get with the times you gezzers.
That's geezers, you dumbfuck.
At least in the 1940s they taught us how to spell.
You're half right, we Linux users ARE all gay, but you got the reason wrong...
There's just nothing like going Windows-user-in-a-suit-ass to Mac-fanboi-in-trendy-teeshirt-and-jeans-mouth. Watching that clueless cubicle drone wince while my freshly compiled 'kernel' breeches the pucker, and then looking into the hungry eyes of the already-experienced homosexual Mac fagboi makes the experience almost as sensually gratifying as Beryl.
Try Linux sometime, it might not be the 'in' thing to do, but you don't feel like you've been anally raped on a daily basis, and you don't have to pretend your shit (ya know, on the upper lip) doesn't stink.
(P.S. This is my first ever troll attempt, how was it?)