Re:Leaving htop running freezes macOS High Sierra
by nicolaslem on Saturday January 06, 2018 @09:24AM
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> In exchange you get a more uniform and comprehensive experience, with software that adapts to new features faster.
Do you know how old the version of Bash that ships with High Sierra is?
Re:Leaving htop running freezes macOS High Sierra
by coldtea on Saturday January 06, 2018 @10:13AM
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I know. I also know the reason (GPLv3, and companies avoiding it like the plague). I also know how to install the latest bash with brew and set it as my default shell (takes all of 30 seconds).
OS X is not about the version of bash it includes -- that's a historically hidden behind the UI tool for us geeks, not what's intended for the everyday Mac user to use (and the UI had been the priority there ever since the original Mac).
Lastly, I've used bona fide certified UNIX machines from vendors like IBM, HP and SUN that had much worse core userland -- awfully limited BSD versions of GNU tools, much older stuff, etc. So there's that too.
But the Mac way, to which you sign in when you get a Mac, isn't running 8 year old software forever. It's updating things every few years, and breaking stuff going forward, not being burdened with backwards compatibility forever.
In exchange you get a more uniform and comprehensive experience, with software that adapts to new features faster.