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Re:FreeBSD switches the default root shell from csh to sh by dekhn on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @11:07AM (#28931551)
biomedical research, but the person I was helping "had written a kernel disk driver for VAX BSD back in the 80s" and I think they wanted things to more or less stay the same as BSD in the 80s. Which, as far as wishes go, isn't terrible.
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Re:FreeBSD switches the default root shell from csh to sh by agumonkey on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @11:42AM (#28932081)
yeah I guess he earned the right to have his ways :)
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