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Unix Desktop
F
Could somebody please take a screenshot of their regular unix desktop please? I'm talking about the first thing you see when you boot your computer. I've never seen one and I'm just curious! ;v)
L
unix isn't used on desktops. (aside from macos, which is unix under the fancy gui).Do you mean linux?
F
No, I meant unix. OK, I'll fess up. Remember in Jurasic Park when the girl sits down to the parks computer and says, "This is a unix system! I know this!" Well I was just wondering if unix systems still looks like that now.
L
these days its kind of hard to define what pure unix is. BSD and solaris are both derived from unix, but arguably aren't pure unix
S
Spoiler
This is literally it right after logging in. Looks exactly the same on my tablet as it does if I went into the lounge and opened up the laptop in question.
EDIT: To get loony off my ass, it's considered to be Unix-based; Linux isn't pure Unix. But that's honestly splitting hairs these days, especially when it comes to what your terminal is going to look like.
L
actually linux isn't unix based, it was developed independently. The GNU in GNU/Linux actually stands for GNU's Not Unix.Solaris and BSD are much closer to unix than linux is, and are legitimately unix based.I do actually have a copy of what would be considered 'pure' unix (AT&T System V unix) but it doesn't want to boot on modern hardware. Most unix variants won't run on x86 based hardware.
S
Fine, "Unix-like". She asked what it looked like, not the minutiae of the differences between distributions. A CLI is a CLI. It looks close enough as makes no discernable difference to that of a Unix box unless you want to get pedantic. And if you do, that's great, by all means, but nobody is actually going to give a fuck about it because I've answered the question and you haven't.
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