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La TI a gran escala es posible gracias a los shells. Actualmente son un elemento necesario en la informática, pero probablemente no habría sido así sin el arduo trabajo de uno de los desarrolladores de la Free Software Foundation llamado Brian Fox. Ahora, el Bash shell se encuentra en casi todas las computadoras del mundo. En los años 70, Bell Labs quería automatizar las secuencias de comandos complejos y repetitivos. Chet Ramey nos cuenta que la empresa desarrolló varios shells, pero solo uno sería oficialmente compatible con UNIX. ¡Y en eso llegó el Bourne shell! Era el mejor de la cosecha, pero tenía sus límites y solo estaba disponible con una licencia UNIX limitada. Brian J. Fox relata su tiempo en la Free Software Foundation, en que necesitaba crear una versión libre del Bourne shell. Tenía que ser compatible, pero sin utilizar ningún elemento del código fuente original. Tal vez ese Bourne-Again Shell, también conocido como Bash, sea el software más utilizado del mundo. Taz Brown señala que es una de las herramientas más importantes para un desarrollador.
Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett are joined by GNU Bash creator Brian J Fox on FLOSS Weekly. Searls asks Fox his thoughts on the biggest crisis and opportunity facing the world of open source and the idea that open source isn't secure. For more, check out FLOSS Weekly: https://twit.tv/floss/632 Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett Guest: Brian J. Fox You can find more about TWiT and subscribe to our podcasts at https://podcasts.twit.tv/
Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett are joined by GNU Bash creator Brian J Fox on FLOSS Weekly. Searls asks Fox his thoughts on the biggest crisis and opportunity facing the world of open source and the idea that open source isn't secure. For more, check out FLOSS Weekly: https://twit.tv/floss/632 Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett Guest: Brian J. Fox You can find more about TWiT and subscribe to our podcasts at https://podcasts.twit.tv/
The story of the bash shell begins with Brian Fox, who wrote the original, and it continues on this show packed with interesting forays into the achievements and challenges of free software and open source. In conversation with Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett, Fox also unpacks the thinkings and workings behind the Orchid VPN, and all the primary and secondary effects of simply making one's work maximally useful. Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett Guest: Brian J. Fox Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: udacity.com/TWiT offer code TWIT75 audible.com/floss or text floss to 500-500
The story of the bash shell begins with Brian Fox, who wrote the original, and it continues on this show packed with interesting forays into the achievements and challenges of free software and open source. In conversation with Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett, Fox also unpacks the thinkings and workings behind the Orchid VPN, and all the primary and secondary effects of simply making one's work maximally useful. Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett Guest: Brian J. Fox Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: udacity.com/TWiT offer code TWIT75 audible.com/floss or text floss to 500-500
The story of the bash shell begins with Brian Fox, who wrote the original, and it continues on this show packed with interesting forays into the achievements and challenges of free software and open source. In conversation with Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett, Fox also unpacks the thinkings and workings behind the Orchid VPN, and all the primary and secondary effects of simply making one's work maximally useful. Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett Guest: Brian J. Fox Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: udacity.com/TWiT offer code TWIT75 audible.com/floss or text floss to 500-500
The story of the bash shell begins with Brian Fox, who wrote the original, and it continues on this show packed with interesting forays into the achievements and challenges of free software and open source. In conversation with Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett, Fox also unpacks the thinkings and workings behind the Orchid VPN, and all the primary and secondary effects of simply making one's work maximally useful. Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett Guest: Brian J. Fox Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: udacity.com/TWiT offer code TWIT75 audible.com/floss or text floss to 500-500
The story of the bash shell begins with Brian Fox, who wrote the original, and it continues on this show packed with interesting forays into the achievements and challenges of free software and open source. In conversation with Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett, Fox also unpacks the thinkings and workings behind the Orchid VPN, and all the primary and secondary effects of simply making one's work maximally useful. Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett Guest: Brian J. Fox Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: udacity.com/TWiT offer code TWIT75 audible.com/floss or text floss to 500-500
The story of the bash shell begins with Brian Fox, who wrote the original, and it continues on this show packed with interesting forays into the achievements and challenges of free software and open source. In conversation with Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett, Fox also unpacks the thinkings and workings behind the Orchid VPN, and all the primary and secondary effects of simply making one's work maximally useful. Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett Guest: Brian J. Fox Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: udacity.com/TWiT offer code TWIT75 audible.com/floss or text floss to 500-500
The story of the bash shell begins with Brian Fox, who wrote the original, and it continues on this show packed with interesting forays into the achievements and challenges of free software and open source. In conversation with Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett, Fox also unpacks the thinkings and workings behind the Orchid VPN, and all the primary and secondary effects of simply making one's work maximally useful. Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett Guest: Brian J. Fox Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: udacity.com/TWiT offer code TWIT75 audible.com/floss or text floss to 500-500
The story of the bash shell begins with Brian Fox, who wrote the original, and it continues on this show packed with interesting forays into the achievements and challenges of free software and open source. In conversation with Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett, Fox also unpacks the thinkings and workings behind the Orchid VPN, and all the primary and secondary effects of simply making one's work maximally useful. Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett Guest: Brian J. Fox Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: udacity.com/TWiT offer code TWIT75 audible.com/floss or text floss to 500-500
Go down the rabbit hole with Brian J. Fox, Co-founder of Orchid & the original author of the GNU Bash shell. He shares his open source journey as the first employee of the Free Software Foundation, building Orchid’s VPN protocol, and the biggest lessons he learned as an entrepreneur.
Shells make large-scale IT possible. They’re a necessary component to modern computing. But it might not have turned out that way without a lot of hard work from a developer at the Free Software Foundation named Brian Fox. Now, the Bash shell is shipped with almost every computer in the world. In the ‘70s, Bell Labs wanted to automate sequences of repetitive, complex commands. Chet Ramey describes how Bell developed several shells—but there could be only one officially supported shell for UNIX. Enter the Bourne shell. Though it was the best of that crop, the Bourne shell had its limits. And it was only available with a limited UNIX license. Brian J. Fox recounts his time at the Free Software Foundation where he needed to create a free—as in speech—version of the Bourne shell. It had to be compatible without using any elements of the original source code. That Bourne-Again Shell, aka Bash, is possibly the most widely used software in the planet. And Taz Brown describes how it’s one of the most important tools a developer can learn to use. You can dive deeper into the story of Bash, or any of the programming languages we cover this season, if you head over to the show’s site at redhat.com/commandlineheroes Follow along with the episode transcript.
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