the zsh shell

First off, the basics: I expect most of you to be familiar with what a shell is. A command-line shell is a user interface to the operating system. For all practical purposes, you know it as “the thing that you type commands into”. There are many, many shells to choose from, and most *nix’es come with different default shells too. Arguably, the most popular shell in use today is the GNU Bourne Again Shell, better known as bash. The other main family of shells is known as the C shells (csh, tcsh) — named after their C-like scripting syntax.

So what’s zsh and why would I want it over my current shell?

Interesting… :p

Fedora 10 Preview

Yesterday I installed the preview release of Fedora 10. I am disapointed; the most needed things, for me anyway, would be to have multimedia support of some kind. My mp3s are a no go, mplayerplug-in doesn’t exist, same with mozilla-plugin-vlc. No quicktime either? What is this?
All of this did work with snapshot 3 earlier, so my guess is that the guys at Rpmfusion are rebuilding their stuff or something. Other than that it feels pretty solid, stable and it is fast. Windows open instantly, there is no lag, haven’t tested 3d yet, other than glxinfo | grep direct gives me a positive answer, but enabling the desktop effects shows nothing but grayed out windows. This is with and Nvidia 7600GT graphics card. I am going back to Ubuntu until this release matures a little bit more, and I will check back later.