Hacker News Reader

> This alias seems to be set by default in many linux distributions these days (and has been that way for many years now)

Which Linux distributions do this? I have not seen this alias set by default on any distribution that I've used recently (Gentoo, Linux Mint, Debian, Ubuntu, Crunchbang, Arch).

View on HN

I stand corrected, it doesn't seem to be the case anymore.

I can find old rpms and deb files with rm aliased in /etc/skel/.bashrc or /etc/skel/profile/aliases.sh, but the most recent I found is in a bash 3.2 package, so this practice seems to have stopped quite a few years ago.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com