FreeLists / arachne / [arachne] Re: GUI vs console applications

[Jason & Ornumar Dodd <jasorn@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
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> On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 12:43 +0000, Udo Kuhnt wrote: 
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> > Hello Jason,
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> >     
> > > Been a linux guy for so long now, I don't understand this conversation. 
> > > If you want a console app, make one. If you want a gui app, make one. 
> > > Pity there needs to be a whole different OS for that. 
> > >       
> > I don't quite understand what you mean by this. Do you want to say that
> > you regard X-Windows as a different OS? I think it is just an
> > application running on top of Linux, isn't it?
> >     
> You mean like Window$ always used to be just an application running on 
> top of DOS?
>   
Pretty much.  Except with a big serving of Freedom thrown in.

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