FOSS Weekly #23.03: Unknown Linux Shells, Terminals, Code Editors and More

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💬 In this week's issue:

Different shells and terminals to explore
Code editors, new and classics
Interview with The Linux Cast host Matthew Weber
And more Linux news, videos and memes

🗞 Linux News Round-up

Here is the selected news from the Linux world:

Mastodon's growth continues with another big brand joining the platform.
Kodi 20.0 'Nexus' was released with support for AV1 Video on Linux.
A ChatGPT GNOME extension is in the works for Linux users.
Restic, the cross-platform backup program, received a new release with many improvements.
Bitwarden makes its first known acquisition.
KDE Plasma 5.27 beta is looking good.
GNOME's research tells us that Flatpak is quite popular.

🧠 What we’re thinking about

The FBI managed to trace a Tor user's real IP address, they wouldn't divulge how. We wonder how they were able to accomplish that.

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AWK programming language was initially developed in 1977 by Alfred Aho, Peter J. Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan. AWK takes its name from their respective initials. A for Aho, W for Weinberger and K for Kernighan.

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✨Shells, Terminals and Prompts

If you think terminal, shell and prompt are the same things, you should get familiar with the essentials.

Bash is so popular that it has become synonymous with shell. However, it is not the only shell out there. Apart from other popular ones like ksh, csh, zsh, here are some lesser-known shells.

And why just stop at shells? There are plenty of terminals as well.

Shells and terminals are done. How about customizing the prompt?

🐧Linux learning resources

It is not easy to understand the cron job expression by heart. This little cheat sheet helps.

In fact, there is an excellent online portal to create and understand cron expressions.

Crontab.guru - The cron schedule expression editor

An easy to use editor for crontab schedules.

The cron schedule expression editor

📺 What we are watching

Even Linux creator Linus Torvalds thinks Debian is difficult to install. This is almost ten years old but it still makes me smile how he shares his struggle of maintaining multiple Linux machines in his family.

📱Application highlights

This is a promising new upcoming code editor.

It is difficult to include it in the list of best open source code editors at this stage. However, this is surely one of the upcoming code editors to watch out for.

🤣 Linux Humor

Linux users are Linux users even if they use it with WSL inside Windows, right?

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