On Jun 18, 2013, at 5:04, Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 17 June 2013 20:40, Derek Carter (aka goozbach) <goozbach@friocorte.com> wrote:
>> BTW I'm still using BASH as my $SHELL, I should go 'whole hog' and try
>> rc, but baby steps... baby steps...
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> When I switched to /bin/rc on Ubuntu, I found that even the Applications>Terminal windows appeared quickly,
> compared to whatever shell was being used by default. Of course, with both 9term and rc, windows appear immediately.

Ubuntu has a lot of shit that bash has to run before it starts to "improve the user experience."