From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jul 1 02:08:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA20139 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 02:08:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from innocence.interface-business.de (innocence.interface-business.de [193.101.57.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA20093 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 02:07:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from j@localhost) by innocence.interface-business.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) with UUCP id LAA26400 for freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 11:05:41 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA05258; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 11:04:49 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970701110449.HK02109@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 11:04:49 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why Not Make tcsh the default shell? References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Annelise Anderson on Jul 1, 1997 01:05:30 -0700 Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Annelise Anderson wrote: > Why does FreeBSD install csh as the default shell instead of tcsh? Because there are five different shells, and six different opinions among the users about which one is the best. :-) So the only reasonable choice could be to keep the `historic' shells in the base system (where our /bin/sh is a lot better than /bin/sh's used to be historically), and leave it to the local admin to add packages as (s)he likes. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)