Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2020 17:43:33 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: Enji Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> Cc: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com>, Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Ars Technica article on FreeBSD new user experience Message-ID: <202004120043.03C0hXdl025058@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <7E83538A-9360-4B0D-9190-6E3A675C53DD@gmail.com>
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> > > On Apr 10, 2020, at 5:46 PM, John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> wrote: > > > > Kyle Evans wrote this message on Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 09:49 -0500: > > ? > > >> My memory here is incredibly hazy, it may be that I was scarred by > >> history not persisting at all across sessions or something like this; > >> I quickly installed zsh and never looked back. > > > > Yeah, history isn't kept by default, not sure if there's an option to > > keep it, if there is, I don't see it in the man page, and ctrl-r doesn't > > work either. > > There is history support, but it?s not on by default and it?s not spelled the same way as other shells (I don?t think it?s persistent between shell invocations, however): > > The following variables affect the execution of fc: > > FCEDIT Name of the editor to use for history editing. > > HISTSIZE The number of previous commands that are > accessible. > > > Given that the only other base system shell option is csh, I opt out of both and always install bash (I haven?t quite jumped on the zsh train yet). > Thanks, There are many blogs around for the Linuxes about what to do right after you finish an install, like the apt get update, apt get upgrade.. blah blah blah. Perhaps a few of those for FreeBSD would go a long way to dull a few of our poken sticken? After you have installed a FreeBSD basic system you may wish to: 1) Install an alternate shell. FreeBSD ships with 2 very minimal shells, /bin/sh and /bin/csh (actaull a tcsh). Many users like bash, zsh, or ksh any of which can be installed with: pkg install <shellname> 2) If you need a desktop experience you'll need to add X11: .... I feel this would go a long long ways in moving the peg forward. > -Enji -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org
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