From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 19 7: 9:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (unknown [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E171137B401 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 07:09:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f0JF7M717460; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 10:07:22 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A68580D.C6AFCE5E@mail.iowna.com> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 10:06:53 -0500 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: This is not a re-opening of the shell wars.. :) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > Apparently there are a few people in the middle. I would suppose that > > there's very few. I'd be more inclined to assume that he was making up > > an excuse not to like FreeBSD. I've seen people do this a lot, it's just > > an excuse to cover up the fact that they didn't want to like it to begin > > with - somebody probably pushed him into trying it when he didn't want > > to, and he used it just long enough to find an excuse to report back to > > the pusher. > > If I'm right, the solution is to not push people into things they don't > > want to try. If I'm wrong, then just ignore my babbling. > > > Oh I wasn't thinking of placating him in particular. > I was thinking more of making sure that it is clearer that FBSD has > support for a tremendous number of software tools, including everyone's > favourite shell. I am still discovering gems in the /.../bin directories :) OK, like I said earlier, it surely wouldn't hurt anything. I just don't think it would help much as it is assumed that any UN*X variant will run most any shell. I could be wrong, however. Perhaps there are a lot of newbies out there who somehow have a devotion to a shell but don't understand that they can install it. Like I said before, it couldn't hurt. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message