Re:macOS 10.15 Vista
by soraminazuki on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @07:31AM
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What’s so upsetting about switching the default shell to zsh? It’s compatible enough that most users wouldn’t be able to tell the difference.
Besides, licensing problems would persist no matter how much more effort Apple is willing to put into macs.
They have a big shared codebase between iOS and macOS, so them adding GPLv3 tools can end badly with the anti-tivoization clauses.
Re:macOS 10.15 Vista
by soraminazuki on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @07:04PM
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You mean they have GPLv2 code in iOS?
Yes they do.
Amazingly, the message is actually hard coded into the bash binary, rather than having been done via an rc file – so it can't be disabled in any obvious way I can see.
export BASH_SILENCE_DEPRECATION_WARNING=1
Thanks!
Re:macOS 10.15 Vista
by elSidCampeador on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @02:17AM
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Wait what? Why/when did they do this?
What are you asking?
Why/When MacOS transitioned to zsh?
Why; because bash became GPLv3 at some point in history and MacOS couldn’t update their version of bash. (The last GPLv2 version).
When; was catalina (just released)
That said... I agree. Between this, the abysmal keyboard failure rate, and some of the user-hostile choices they've made, I've switched to a Razer laptop.
Windows 10 Pro lets you avoid most of the jank, by the way. But, I'm only on it as an eventual migration path to something running XFCE (my favorite wm due to its out of box usability).