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Differnece between Konsole, Terminal and Shell.

2 Responses to Differnece between Konsole, Terminal and Shell.

  1. varun says:

    Konsole is physicsl in sense that it actually interacts with the machine.
    Tremianl can be a remote machine that interacts through the Konsole at the local machine.
    Shell is special program that interacts with a user thru a controlling tty and offers to user way of launching other programs.

    • shivdeep says:

      Terminal has many meanings in linux.
      But the difference you are wondering about is
      1. gnome-terminal
      2. Konsole
      3. Shell

      1. and 2. are programs that run virtual shell, i.e. /bin/sh usually.
      gnome-terminal comes with GNOME desktop, made with GTK+ libraries.
      Konsole is a for KDE desktop environment.

      whereas SHELL is the name of the program that runs
      inside a virtual terminal or …
      /bin/sh
      /bin/csh /bin/zsh are some example of SHELL programs, they provide interface to linux.

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