Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 07:06:18 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "James Howard" <howardjp@Glue.umd.edu>, "Brad Knowles" <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: "Konstantinos Konstantinidis" <kkonstan@duth.gr>, <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: A breath of fresh air.. Message-ID: <015f01c17fae$74ebc4d0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0112071730170.8200-100000@y.glue.umd.edu> <006c01c17f70$8782de50$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <a05101005b837406671a6@[10.0.1.16]> <00de01c17fa1$06539e10$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <a0510100cb83754b63467@[10.0.1.16]>
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Brad writes: > > How do you get out of the GUI and back to a > > simple console? > > Pull up a shell window. How do you "pull up a shell window" if you have exited the GUI? > X is not necessarily a "standard", certainly > not one that you are required to implement. Really? So much for arguments in favor of UNIX based on X, eh? It's interesting how positions shift. > I know of plenty of Unix servers around the > world that don't implement any kind of GUI > at all. I'd expect that any UNIX system used as a server would not have a GUI, as it is just a waste of resources and a security and stability risk. > Moreover, downloading and installing X is not that > big of a deal. So why isn't the Mac OS X simply an X server? > What's running currently? I dunno, lemme pull up > a shell window and see: Lots of weird stuff. Weird stuff makes me nervous. > There's a lot of more unusual looking stuff here > (mostly Aqua applications), but there are also > some pretty familiar faces ... It's the unusual stuff that always worries me. > /sbin: > SystemStarter fsck_msdos mount_afp ... My guess is that a great deal hides behind SystemStarter. > Seems mostly standard to me. If anything, what > they've done here is largely add a few things > and maybe move a few things around. Kind of like Windows 3.x, no? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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