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Re: Would there be a drawback of using the same graphical toolkit on eve
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Would there be a drawback of using the same graphical toolkit on every platform? |
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Sat, 19 Feb 2022 11:26:05 +0200 |
> Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2022 10:09:01 +0100
> From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
> <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
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> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
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> > The first line of the GNU Manifesto says:
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> > What's GNU? Gnu's Not Unix!
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> _That_'s the joke ...
Not really. The _acronym_ is a joke, but not the idea.
> GNU isn't UNIX but it sure is Unix!
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> As is Linux ...
No, they aren't. The kernel is very different, most of the utilities
are very different, etc.
> POSIX = Portable Operating System Interface, coined by RMS ...
> or am I wrong?
You are wrong. POSIX indeed covers both Unix and GNU systems, so if I
said "POSIX and GNU", that would be a funny mistake. But that's not
what I said.
Re: Would there be a drawback of using the same graphical toolkit on every platform?, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/02/19
Re: Would there be a drawback of using the same graphical toolkit on every platform?, Jean Louis, 2022/02/19
Re: Would there be a drawback of using the same graphical toolkit on every platform?, Emanuel Berg, 2022/02/19
Re: Would there be a drawback of using the same graphical toolkit on every platform?, Jean Louis, 2022/02/20
Re: Would there be a drawback of using the same graphical toolkit on every platform?, Emanuel Berg, 2022/02/26
Re: Would there be a drawback of using the same graphical toolkit on every platform?, Jean Louis, 2022/02/19