From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 11 15:51:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9D4C14FA9 for ; Tue, 11 May 1999 15:51:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA29027; Tue, 11 May 1999 18:13:08 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 18:13:07 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Laurence Berland Cc: Donald Wilde , Todd Backman , "James A. Mutter" , phrotos@email.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to change the shell? In-Reply-To: <3738AC29.35E46875@confusion.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 11 May 1999, Laurence Berland wrote: > I've heard that many times, is there any reason not to just put tcsh, > bash, etc on the root partition? because they both stink, use zsh! i think licenses, and the fact that no one wants to argue what will become the defacto shell form freebsd is what keeps it as sh/csh. sh/csh is also mandated by tradition afaik and there is no need for bash/tcsh/zsh in the base install, they are seperately developed projects. this is why we have the ports collection.. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message