From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Jul 26 9:47:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01.wxs.nl (smtp01.wxs.nl [195.121.6.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06EFE15046 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 09:47:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.196.155]) by smtp01.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAE5EF0; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 18:45:22 +0200 Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA01445; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 18:28:40 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 18:28:40 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Greg Lehey Cc: Radu-Cristian FOTESCU , John Armstrong , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: What to tell to Linux-centric people?! Message-ID: <19990726182840.F1384@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <19990726184500.W51019@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.3i In-Reply-To: <19990726184500.W51019@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 06:45:00PM +0930 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Greg Lehey (grog@lemis.com) [990726 13:15]: > Don't get me wrong, I think we should do more to make it easy for > Linux people to migrate to FreeBSD. But that's a sideline; somebody > commented that we don't want to turn FreeBSD into Linux. On the other > hand, the shell issue is an example of where we go over the top: I > looked on freefall yesterday, and only one person uses csh. Nobody > uses sh. I'd guess a large minority use tcsh, a couple use zsh, and > the largest single group (60%?) use bash. Guess I am the only fart to use ksh? I recognise DES and EE as the zsh freaks though *G* But then again Greg, judging on freefall doesn't account for csh's popularity in other environments where the default still would be csh and used. All a matter of taste... We could however kick csh out, make it a port, if it's not there already, and just have /bin/sh ;) -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmodai(at)wxs.nl The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project Network/Security Specialist BSD: Technical excellence at its best Cum angelis et pueris, fideles inveniamur. Quis est iste Rex gloriae...? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message