Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 18:13:07 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> To: Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net> Cc: Donald Wilde <dwilde1@thuntek.net>, Todd Backman <tbackman@c523578-a.sttls1.wa.home.com>, "James A. Mutter" <jmutter@netwalk.com>, phrotos@email.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to change the shell? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990511181118.24802r-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <3738AC29.35E46875@confusion.net>
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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
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