Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 00:04:23 -0500
From: Corvin Russell
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
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But not standard Unix, and I've yet to hear that you can remove the GUI layer.
<p>Au contraire, mon ami, you can get the OS without the GUI layer right
here, right now:
<p>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
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Corvin Russell