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Re:FreeBSD switches the default root shell from csh to sh by dekhn on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @11:29AM (#28931903)
from what I can tell he was looking hard for problems.

He also noticed that if you ran 9 "yes" commands on a 8 core machine, the CPU wasn't allocated in 8/9ths units (one process always got a lot less CPU). he was used to much more predictible CPU scheduler on multiprocessor systems (spoilt by TruCluster). Linux later adopted a better scheduler (fair share) so imho he was right on that one, even if "yes" is a terribly performance metric.

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Re:FreeBSD switches the default root shell from csh to sh by fragmede on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @11:48AM (#28932160)
It seems the lesson here is that changing things out from under someone isn't a good look. What would have been the cost in not changing users' shells for them?
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Re:FreeBSD switches the default root shell from csh to sh by tedunangst on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @12:35PM (#28932753)
Everybody else has a worse shell.
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