From: "Timothy R. Butler"
From: Corvin Russell [mailto:corvinr@sympatico.ca] Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 11:04 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] mac osX The end of Linux?
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 10:32:43PM -0600, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
Sorry to get in on this thread sort of late - but I thought I'd list a few reasons why it won't do away with Linux (some may have already been mentioned:
10.) Linux's strong hold isn't in the Desktop anyway - it's in the server, something the Mac is very weak in (weaker than Windows, IIRC)
McOS X is unix, and thus an excellent se4ving platform
But not standard Unix, and I've yet to hear that you can remove the
GUI layer.
Au contraire, mon ami, you can get the OS without the GUI layer right here, right now:
http://www.publicsource.apple.com//projects/darwin/
It's slightly inaccurate to say Darwin doesn't have history behind it -- between NeXT and BSD, and now OS-X and OS-X Server, there's a fair amount of history behind OS-X/Darwin.
What you can't do is get Darwin for free *with* the OS-X GUI layer. XFree86 has already been ported... who knows, perhaps KDE and Gnome will be too...
I don't think this discussion has been "religious" (I don't much care for the abuse of that word), on the contrary it has been entirely civil.
Corvin
-- Corvin Russell
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