Re: A dumb question

From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <j.deboynepollard-newsgroups_at_ntlworld.com>
Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 19:01:40 +0100 (BST)

Laurent Bercot:
> > "It's old software. Its last version is from 2014."
>
> Old? Let's see...

A more amusant counterexample is perhaps the Debian Almquist shell, put into
widespread use on Debian and Ubuntu a decade ago in order to speed up bootstrap.
 M. Almquist first published it in May 1989. Its Debian maintainer is Gerrit
Pape.

* https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh

* https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh/Spec

* https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2007/07/msg00027.html

* https://wiki.debian.org/DashAsBinSh

* https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dash
Received on Tue May 02 2017 - 18:01:40 UTC

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