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fragmede
73 days ago
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Can you slim macOS down?
Yeah, like a really shitty ancient version of bash. If that's what UNIX means to you, I'm not gonna yuck your yum, but what could be more UNIX like than letting license issues make life worse for your users.
Hey, at least it isn't *BSD! (Or, well...)
ada0000
73 days ago
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macOS switched to zsh a while ago. i don’t see what that minor choice has to do with being or not being UNIX.
fragmede
72 days ago
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_wars
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Unix
but if you've not seen them before then maybe start at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix
ada0000
72 days ago
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I know enough about Unix that shipping an outdated binary in the base system is entirely unsurprising :-)
pjmlp
73 days ago
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bash doesn't mean UNIX, in fact UNIX means being able to chose your shell.
fragmede
72 days ago
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I'm
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certain that the UNIX standard isn't limited to the manpage for chsh.
pjmlp
72 days ago
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Then you are also
fairly
certain that it doesn't include latest version of bash, rather sh, and are aware of what the difference means.
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Hey, at least it isn't *BSD! (Or, well...)