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Re: Would there be a drawback of using the same graphical toolkit on eve


From: Emanuel Berg
Subject: Re: Would there be a drawback of using the same graphical toolkit on every platform?
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2022 23:29:36 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Jean Louis wrote:

> That means on Unix-like systems. It is better expressed that
> way. GNU is Not Unix, true, though it is very much
> Unix-like, such systems are mentioned as Unices if
> I remember well.

But that is a formal distinction:

  A Unix-like (sometimes referred to as UN*X or *nix)
  operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to
  a Unix system, although not necessarily conforming to or
  being certified to any version of the Single UNIX
  Specification. [1]

But I don't care about that. And for good reason, because in
terms of technology a random Linux distribution found on
DistroWatch.com [2] is as much Unix as anything else.

I played ice hockey for more than a decade. I didn't wear
a helmet a single time. But the IIHF says all players should
wear helmets. That means it wasn't ice hockey, what I took
part in was an "ice hockey-like sport". See? The absence of
a helmet _is_ what "breaks" it!

> I feel fine with DragonFlyBSD and GNU/Linux-libre systems,
> as user I do not see differences, majority of basic command
> line tools are more or less same. I do prefer GNU tools for
> reasons of --help and --version and some consistency.

And because there are tons of more options than on a BSD
system, e.g. OpenBSD. But I like both in principle; I'm
a maximalist but they are not and they made a system in line
with that and their style. Linux is also much bigger so there
is a much bigger culture, support, services, webpages, and so
on. Books and business, cons and pros. Like I said, I'm
a maximalist so the Unix cocktail I do is Linux, Emacs, zsh and
Lisp - not OpenBSD, nano, mrsh, and Yabasic. But that is still
just two styles ... of Unix.

(Now, for the record, I made that up as you realized. You can
use Emacs, zsh and Lisp on OpenBSD as well as again, everyone
understands, helmet or not.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix-like

[2] https://dataswamp.org/~incal/CLUELESS-ONLINE

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