By David Laur -
When we were looking at the dash issue, in the tractor daemon start-up scripts, I was surprised to learn that dash also ships with recent Red Hat now as well, although it is not a replacement for classic /bin/sh as it is on Ubuntu. It doesn't seem to be part of RHEL5, but new in RHEL6.
a rationale:
a thread of rants, starting six years ago:
On Apr 16, 2013, at 8:55 AM, Jimmy Christensen wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Shane McEwan wrote:
>> Rant 2: Ubuntu, why do you ship with dash? Why not ship with bash as the default shell, setting it to be POSIX conformant by default if necessary?
>> I beleive that the reason was that dash was more lightweight than bash. To improve startup time of the OS.
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