marathon@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 7 hours agoApparently, 12% of Technology Workers Believe that MacOS is based on Linuxwww.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square74fedilinkarrow-up1139arrow-down113
arrow-up1126arrow-down1external-linkApparently, 12% of Technology Workers Believe that MacOS is based on Linuxwww.youtube.commarathon@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 7 hours agomessage-square74fedilink
minus-squarebdonvr@thelemmy.clublinkfedilinkarrow-up9·4 hours agoIt has been since 2019 but before that it was bash.
minus-squareArthur Besse@lemmy.mlMlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-23 hours agoThey switched to bash in 2003 with Mac OS X 10.3; before that it was tcsh.
minus-squareCousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.chlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·4 hours agoIt is now, but it was bash before. But in any case once you start doing anything remotely advanced you’ll find the individual command line utilities are wildly different between macOS and Linux. They seem (are?) much closer to FreeBSD than GNU utilities.
Isnt
zshthe default macos shell?It has been since 2019 but before that it was bash.
They switched to bash in 2003 with Mac OS X 10.3; before that it was tcsh.
It is now, but it was
bashbefore.But in any case once you start doing anything remotely advanced you’ll find the individual command line utilities are wildly different between macOS and Linux. They seem (are?) much closer to FreeBSD than GNU utilities.
Closer, maybe. Similar, not.