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Whichever shell you might prefer, it's absurd and infuriating to have one shell as the default for normal users (including the first user created at installation time), and a completely different, not even remotely compatible one for the superuser.
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Because in a sibling comment by the same poster, previous to my comment, he wrote "he", so I assumed he was a he.
Fair enough. Timeline wasn't so clear on that for me. For the record, I see this kind of behavior all the time on HN.. I don't always call it out but occasionally. I always get downvoted, which doesn't surprise me, but it's the right thing to make people aware of these subtle behavior patterns that many women have told me makes them reconsider their field.
I've been a tcsh user for nearly 30 years, but I also believe /bin/sh should be as minimal and reliable as possible, the Bourne shell (or ash), certainly not a bloated monstrosity like bash or zsh. Even ksh is too big for my taste.
csh Programming Considered Harmful http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/csh
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Pre-1992 it was SunOS and yes that is exactly what we want (without all the security holes). SunOS was BSD and Nirvana as far as Unix goes. Solaris was SysV and quickly earned the nickname "Slowlaris". For me FreeBSD is the functional descendant of SunOS. As for Linux I first tried it out in 1993 and was appalled that command line switches for most standard Unix utils had been arbitrarily remapped. Tried FreeBSD 1.0…
I think the Slowlaris moniker was not due to Solaris itself, but the speed of their SPARC processors. I used to work very closely with x86 Solaris for financial trading and it was performant (and stable!) on Intel hardware at the time (circa 2010). At the time Solaris 10 was feee as in beer. When Oracle took over they got rid of this and wanted $1K per CPU socket per year on non Sun/Oracle hardware. Needless to say e…
[Usenet; poss. from the variety of prosimian called a “slow loris”. The variant ‘Slowlartus’ is also common, related to LART]
Common hackish term for Solaris, Sun's System VR4 version of Unix that came out of the standardization wars of the early 1990s. So named because especially on older hardware, responsiveness was much less crisp than under the preceding SunOS. Early releases of Solaris (that is, Solaris 2, as some marketroids at Sun retroactively rechristened SunOS as Solaris 1) were quite buggy, and Sun was forced by customer demand to support SunOS for quite some time. Newer versions are acknowledged to be among the best commercial Unix variants in 1998, but still lose single-processor benchmarks to Sparc Linux.