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What crystal ball are you looking at that says they are going to continue shipping bash? zsh is a viable replacement that is MIT licensed ... There are plenty
by X-Istence 15y ago
What crystal ball are you looking at that says they are going to continue shipping bash? zsh is a viable replacement that is MIT licensed ...
There are plenty of other shells out there as well that they could replace bash with. Bash isn't the end all be-all of shells.
- diminish 15y agoThe good side is that with zsh and some other software getting their place in OS/X; Linux and OSX communities will diverge away from each other. I kind of like this as a Linux user and developer. With OS/X or Apple we share so little in principles (read a lot of comments here), vision and development(now) and it is good if we end up being 2 mutually exclusive ecosystem similar to Windows/Linux. Being a former Apple employee and having enjoyed Apple's ditching of the classic Mac OSes for OS/X, both worlds have had pretty much similar environments. After 2012 the Apple and Linux development communities appear to be totally accelerating in different directions.
- rsanders 15y agoOS X and Linux never shared a common parent or converged. The BSD heritage is what makes it Unixy. BSD has been oil to Linux's water for a long time.
- diminish 15y agoFor Linux and OS/X, noone said they share common parent; the shared common tools such as bash, samba and a lot of stuff removed as mentioned by this article will create diverging ecosystems (and before replying watch out, noone says diverging kernels).
- X-Istence 15y agoYou can still install those common tools if you wish. Just like on FreeBSD you don't get bash by default...