It's a reference to the command line interface (CLI). Different shells have different commands. The differences aren't huge but bash is the predominant one of many, many shells out there.
Consequently, if you have no real idea what bash or tcsh are, the change in Panther probably won't affect you one bit.
bash is the predominant shell mostly because it's so popular with the linux crowd, GNU license and all. Traditionally, FreeBSD has shipped with tcsh as the default user shell, mostly because of both's Berkeley origins. tcsh makes a terrible root shell though, that's why it was zsh in Cheetah currently bash in Jaguar.
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Originally posted by sCreeD
It's a reference to the command line interface (CLI). Different shells have different commands. The differences aren't huge but bash is the predominant one of many, many shells out there.
Consequently, if you have no real idea what bash or tcsh are, the change in Panther probably won't affect you one bit.
bash is the predominant shell mostly because it's so popular with the linux crowd, GNU license and all. Traditionally, FreeBSD has shipped with tcsh as the default user shell, mostly because of both's Berkeley origins. tcsh makes a terrible root shell though, that's why it was zsh in Cheetah currently bash in Jaguar.