Re: Where Are The Computer Companies?

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:

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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.

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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?