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by D9u 4666 days ago
My most recent installation of FreeBSD came with tcsh by default.

But since installing whichever shell one prefers is so easy, I don't see any real problems there.

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Oh, I know FreeBSD defaults to tcsh. My concern is that OSX has chosen to ship ancient GPLv2 software instead of modern BSD software. I can't consider this a good thing for anyone but ideologs.
They ship a pretty recent zsh though :)
Ah, that's good. I wonder why they don't default to it. zsh is a great shell to default to.
They used to, before 10.3 or 10.4 or so. I suspect that it was offputting to people moving from Linux.
I believe jlgreco was asking about Mac OS, not BSD.