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From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
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Subject: Re: Where Are The Computer Companies?
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2025 18:34:22 -0700
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On 2025-06-03 18:24, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jun 2025 17:14:29 -0700, Alan wrote:
> 
>> On 2025-06-03 17:08, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>
>>> When people think “Unix” nowadays, they really mean a Linux or BSD
>>> system. That’s what works they way they expect a “Unix” system to work.
>>> Not Apple.
>>
>> And yet the folks who run Linux systems are mostly putting GUIs on top
>> of them.
> 
> You get the same choice of GUIs on BSD, pretty much. On Linux and BSD, the
> GUI is a modular, replaceable layer. Switching GUIs is as easy as logging
> out of one and logging into another. Or you can run with no GUI at all --
> the usual case on servers. You know, those servers that provide the
> infrastructure for the entire Internet.
> 
> Which is not true for Apple’s “Unix”.

So having a choice of GUIs somehow makes the underlying OS components 
different?

Interesting argument.

As for "infrastructure of the entire Internet"...

....what does it matter if there's a GUI or not on those servers...

....I mean other than making it far easier to interact with them?