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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



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