Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 11:10:51 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> Cc: Radu-Cristian FOTESCU <rfotescu@idsrom.com>, John Armstrong <siberian@siberian.org>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: What to tell to Linux-centric people?! Message-ID: <19990727111051.F62218@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990726182840.F1384@daemon.ninth-circle.org>; from Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai on Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 06:28:40PM %2B0200 References: <C1F3617BDC52D21185E40000214C247C154053@id-bucharest.idsrom.com> <19990726184500.W51019@freebie.lemis.com> <19990726182840.F1384@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
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On Monday, 26 July 1999 at 18:28:40 +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > * 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? Dunno. It's a pity we don't have a real /etc/passwds any more. That was an interesting source of statistics. > 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. Sure. They're probably the commercial environments where tcsh hasn't been ported, and where people are too lazy to move to one of the Bourne descendants. > 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 ;) No, I think that would start another religious war. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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