On 3/24/21 9:27 PM, Daniel L Newhouse wrote:

Is the purpose of Ubuntu to make a Linux that is more like Unix?

Ubuntu's purpose is hard to ascertain but it seems to want to make
a Linux that is more like ChromeOS. But then i find Ubuntu to
be not my cup of tea to put it lightly. But they did a lot of
PR that convinced people who should have known better that it
was the Linux distribution for newcomers to use.

As for Unix and something like it, which Unix are you
talking about as some have very nice Desktop Environments
and I am sure you can get one with a single terminal window
blinking at you as I saw on the Amiga A2000 with a Tape Desk
to load Unix into the machine I guess it was then installed
to the hard disk. Back in the 1980s when we still had local
computer shows.
You can get Linux distros that can do the same thing
today but they are fewer than ever now and many Desktop
Environments are available but I prefer KDE Plasma 5 myself
in the PCLinuxOS 64 a Rolling Release that compiles new
Iso files as soon as enough updates/changes to the
package accumulate. I update daily unless other matters
press. Linux kernel 5.10.25 on my Dell 7450.

bliss - “Nearly any fool can use a Linux computer. Many do.” After all here I am...

--
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On 2021-03-25, Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> wrote:

On 3/24/21 9:27 PM, Daniel L Newhouse wrote:

Is the purpose of Ubuntu to make a Linux that is more like Unix?

Ubuntu's purpose is hard to ascertain but it seems to want to make
a Linux that is more like ChromeOS. But then i find Ubuntu to
be not my cup of tea to put it lightly. But they did a lot of
PR that convinced people who should have known better that it
was the Linux distribution for newcomers to use.

Since ChromeOS came well after Ubuntu, surely it is the other way
around.

As for Unix and something like it, which Unix are you
talking about as some have very nice Desktop Environments

Since the Desktop Environment is simply a user program, there is no
necessary relation between the DE and Unix. I presume you mean that
some purveyors of Unix included particular DE with what they sold.

and I am sure you can get one with a single terminal window
blinking at you as I saw on the Amiga A2000 with a Tape Desk
to load Unix into the machine I guess it was then installed
to the hard disk. Back in the 1980s when we still had local
computer shows.
You can get Linux distros that can do the same thing
today but they are fewer than ever now and many Desktop
Environments are available but I prefer KDE Plasma 5 myself
in the PCLinuxOS 64 a Rolling Release that compiles new
Iso files as soon as enough updates/changes to the
package accumulate. I update daily unless other matters
press. Linux kernel 5.10.25 on my Dell 7450.

bliss - “Nearly any fool can use a Linux computer. Many do.” After all here I am...

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On 3/25/21 12:27 PM, William Unruh wrote:

On 2021-03-25, Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> wrote:

On 3/24/21 9:27 PM, Daniel L Newhouse wrote:

Is the purpose of Ubuntu to make a Linux that is more like Unix?

Newhouse posted to another Linux Newsgroup aka alt.os.linux.ubuntu. I answered him there and he might
be a troll,

Ubuntu's purpose is hard to ascertain but it seems to want to make
a Linux that is more like ChromeOS. But then i find Ubuntu to
be not my cup of tea to put it lightly. But they did a lot of
PR that convinced people who should have known better that it
was the Linux distribution for newcomers to use.

Since ChromeOS came well after Ubuntu, surely it is the other way
around.

Convergence... ;^)
I mean that they don't want the dumb users messing
with their perfect(in their minds) Plan.
'

As for Unix and something like it, which Unix are you
talking about as some have very nice Desktop Environments

Since the Desktop Environment is simply a user program, there is no
necessary relation between the DE and Unix. I presume you mean that
some purveyors of Unix included particular DE with what they sold.

Sold! No! FOSS only! I live on Social Security and can barely
afford media to write iso files to, Unix licenses like Windows licenses
are completely beyond my means.

No I mean Unixes that are given away via Iso file including
versions to be written to Flash Drives and installed and versions
to be written to FD and with a persistent partition to be run
from the FD.

Just look at Distrowatch.

and I am sure you can get one with a single terminal window
blinking at you as I saw on the Amiga A2000 with a Tape Desk
to load Unix into the machine I guess it was then installed
to the hard disk. Back in the 1980s when we still had local
computer shows.
You can get Linux distros that can do the same thing
today but they are fewer than ever now and many Desktop
Environments are available but I prefer KDE Plasma 5 myself
in the PCLinuxOS 64 a Rolling Release that compiles new
Iso files as soon as enough updates/changes to the
package accumulate. I update daily unless other matters
press. Linux kernel 5.10.25 on my Dell 7450.

bliss - “Nearly any fool can use a Linux computer. Many do.” After all here I am...

--
bliss dash SF 4 ever at dslextreme dot com

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