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Hi everyone,

I followed a link to this site while trying to find a free shell I can use and this community looks brilliant! I really like the idea of "earning" a shell by helping other users and using your own skills to help people who may not know as much, and being helped in return in areas you are not so skilled at.

A little about me:
I'm Dan, I live in the United Kingdom and I'm getting very interested in Unix-based systems, I have tried installing several different linux distros, FreeBSD and OpenBSD to try and test out as many different Operating Systems as I can to find one that I like the most.

I enjoy coding/scripting, my prefered languages are C, C++, PHP, HTML and VB. I am looking to learn Ruby, at the moment I am confused as to it's purpose!

Hope to be speaking with most of you soon,
Dan

Well Hello there!

Trying to answer your question about Ruby you should just read the FAQ on it. It's somewhat like Python, and does just about the same thing, although possibly a little more.
I program in Lisp and Python personally.

Enjoy yourself. =]

Welcome Dan. The shell "earning" system is indeed brilliant.