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Re:Use zsh as the default shell on your Mac by nothrabannosir on Monday June 03, 2019 @09:20PM (#20090842)
That’s probably more a BSD vs GNU issue, to be fair. Mac is based on FreeBSD. GNU/Linux, well... :)
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Re:Use zsh as the default shell on your Mac by pcr910303 on Monday June 03, 2019 @09:30PM (#20090892)
To be exact, FreeBSD and macOS (based on NeXTStep) are both based on BSD, and contribute to each other. FreeBSD came out after NeXTStep was released though...
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Re:Use zsh as the default shell on your Mac by asveikau on Monday June 03, 2019 @09:40PM (#20090955)
True that freebsd is more recent than NeXT, but they re-imported a lot of stuff from more recent freebsd over the years though.

Look at a bunch of Apple manpages. Many of them say FreeBSD.

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Re:Use zsh as the default shell on your Mac by AaronFriel on Monday June 03, 2019 @10:23PM (#20091195)
Bash is GNU and so is much of the dated MacOS userland.
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Re:Use zsh as the default shell on your Mac by burke on Monday June 03, 2019 @10:40PM (#20091277)
If I recall correctly, much of the MacOS userland is dated because it uses the last GPLv2 releases of various packages before a move to GPLv3.
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Re:Use zsh as the default shell on your Mac by AaronFriel on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @12:49AM (#20091983)
That's what this thread is about :)
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