GOTCHA in Ubuntu - broken shell
Stephen Ryan
stephen at sryanfamily.info
Mon Oct 1 13:58:29 EDT 2007
On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 10:30 -0400, Tom Buskey wrote:
>
> Thank goodness environments have converged a
> bit. /bin/perl, /bin/bash exist in Solaris, Linux, Cygwin, xBSD and
> (I think) MacOSX.
/bin/bash is present in OSX, but not in the default FreeBSD install or
the default DragonFly BSD install. PC-BSD does include it, though,
along with other heresies like a graphical interface by default and a
KDE desktop. Dunno about NetBSD or OpenBSD, because I haven't had
occasion to install either of those yet, but considering that OpenBSD
still cares about performance on VAXen, I doubt very much that they'd
include a RAM-sucking pig like bash by default.
I've installed about 25 different operating systems for $dayjob in the
past few months, and I have to say that my opinion of the useful niches
for certain systems has shrunk considerably in the process. (Of all the
non-Linux systems I installed, only PC-BSD had a GUI to add a new user,
and it didn't even work right; sure, I can use adduser from the command
line, but because every single one does adduser slightly differently, I
spent an inordinate amount of time groveling through man pages, all to
handle a task that the better systems did as part of the installation
process, automatically. I've also found a surprising number of older
systems that were unnecessarily difficult to install because the default
installation pointed at update download sites that now hold updates for
a later version; FreeBSD and Debian are the two major offenders here,
where Ubuntu, despite being a much newer project, gets this right.)
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