Winston <wbe@UBEBLOCK.psr.com.invalid> wrote:
> Louis Epstein <le@main.lekno.ws> writes:
>> I note that the article from debugpoint.com about
>> the new features of FreeBSD 14 says it has
>> "elevated the root user's default shell to sh".
>
> Maybe the author prefers sh to csh? :)

I suspect the author was a large language model rather than a human.

>> I thought only the Thompson and Mashey shells
>> predated sh,with csh,bash,etc. being more advanced?
>
> Development of sh didn't stop, and today's sh has many
> improvements compared with the 1980's sh.

Indeed. And FreeBSD's /bin/sh today has plenty of interactive features
for day to day systems administration use.

> In the end, does the installation default matter?
> If you prefer csh, use chsh to change it back.

I prefer to keep the system defaults on installations where I'm not the
only admin. For my user account, I've been using zsh for over twenty
years.

Philip

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Philip Paeps
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