| One MacNN reader notes that latest (private) developer version of Panther, Apple's next release of Mac OS X, uses bash as the default terminal shell: I will mention here the big shock that many people will face when they open Terminal for the first time in Panther. Apple has apparently switched from tcsh to bash as the default shell for Panther 7B44." "That may please Mac users who are already comfortable with bash on their Linux machines, but those of us who have stayed with the default settings in Jaguar will have to unlearn a few tcsh-specific things and become much more familiar with bash."
"In the long-run, it will be good to share this similarity with the Linux world, which is growing at such a fast rate. What I'd like to know, though, is Apple's motivation for this change. It will give a lot of publishing companies an excuse to update all their Mac-specific UNIX books that were already too expensive the first time around."
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