From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 2 21:37:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA18305 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 21:37:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (root@andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA18298 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 21:37:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA06489; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 21:37:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 21:37:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: hoek@hwcn.org, Francisco Reyes , FreeBSD Chat List Subject: Re: Why Not Make tcsh the default shell? In-Reply-To: <16549.867883382@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Perhaps the 10% that it _does_ help is more valuable to the > > FreeBSD project (as users, that is) than the 90% that it doesn't > > help. > > But as a group of people who are trying to be professional OS > "vendors", that is simply not our determination to make. Like family, > one does not choose one's customers (as much as one would often like > to, in both cases). I will write an additional section for the newuser.html tutorial on something like "Your Working Environment" and explain how to install a new shell. This is probably where this belongs in any case. The copy of this on my own server gets accessed fairly often and I get occasional thank-you notes (as well as suggestions that I should explain "how to set up tcp/ip", which I'm not about to do), so apparently at least some people read it....and I think it's reduced the number of questions like "What is the name of the administrative account?", so it seems to have been worthwhile. Annelise