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I consider it a positive effect. (BSD fan here)

• jlgreco 13y ago
  Have they replaced bash with a good BSD licensed shell, or are they still rolling with an ancient version of bash? Hard to see that as a "positive" if they are...
  • D9u 13y ago
    My most recent installation of FreeBSD came with tcsh by default. But since installing whichever shell one prefers is so easy, I don't see any real problems there.
    • LukeShu 13y ago
      I believe jlgreco was asking about Mac OS, not BSD.
    • jlgreco 13y ago
      Oh, I know FreeBSD defaults to tcsh. My concern is that OSX has chosen to ship ancient GPLv2 software instead of modern BSD software. I can't consider this a good thing for anyone but ideologs.
      • 0x0 13y ago
        They ship a pretty recent zsh though :)
        • jlgreco 13y ago
          Ah, that's good. I wonder why they don't default to it. zsh is a great shell to default to.
          • rsynnott 13y ago
            They used to, before 10.3 or 10.4 or so. I suspect that it was offputting to people moving from Linux.
  • LukeShu 13y ago
    Mac OS is still shipping with Bash 3.
  • riotingpscifis 13y ago
    Nope it's still an old Bash, with a really slow grep!