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		oneplane on June 4, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Use zsh as the default shell on your Mac Apple ships supported, stable packages. Like Debian and CentOS, yes, that means that sometimes you don't get the latest shiny version to play with.

loriverkutya on June 4, 2019 [–]

Yeah, like somebody mentioned their awk version is from 2006 and buggy as hell. In Debian the packages are updated at least once in two years. In Apple case it’s pretty obvious that they don’t update anything after they changed app license to GPLv3

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