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jlgreco on Sept 11, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: FreeBSD Is No Longer Building GCC By Default

Oh, I know FreeBSD defaults to tcsh. My concern is that OSX has chosen to ship ancient GPLv2 software instead of modern BSD software. I can't consider this a good thing for anyone but ideologs.

0x0 on Sept 11, 2013 [–]

They ship a pretty recent zsh though :)

jlgreco on Sept 11, 2013 | [–]

Ah, that's good. I wonder why they don't default to it. zsh is a great shell to default to.

rsynnott on Sept 12, 2013 | | [–]

They used to, before 10.3 or 10.4 or so. I suspect that it was offputting to people moving from Linux.

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