[wellylug] Forking Linux.
Pete Black
pete at marchingcubes.com
Wed Nov 10 16:42:59 NZDT 2004
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 16:29:12 +1300, Phillip Hutchings
<sitharus at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>The GUI-Linuxers wouldn't know what to do without their Windows
>>>>surrogate (OK - trolling just a tad, eh?) Many text-only Linuxers find
>>>>a depressingly increasing number of essential tools coming only in GUI
>>>>flavours.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>I don't. Which essential tools only come in GUI flavours? And do you
>>>know *anyone* who uses a *nix system purely in text mode?
>>>
>>>
>>Me! :P
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>Your Mac is a *nix system. And I refuse to believe you use that without
>a GUI.
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>donald
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Actually, it's quite easy to boot MacOS X into a console, without
loading Aqua etc.
-Pete
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