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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

by 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!