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Ubuntu made the switch to dash back in 2006 to decrease boot times, as dash is much faster than bash. This was upstreamed to Debian. POSIX compatibility made th
by jbovlaste 5y ago
Ubuntu made the switch to dash back in 2006 to decrease boot times, as dash is much faster than bash. This was upstreamed to Debian. POSIX compatibility made the transition easier (as most scripts were made to run on many Unix systems, not just Linux), but was not the motivation for the switch.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh