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    From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Wed Sep 3 00:04:01 2025
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    Had to chuckle at this <https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-new-linux-desktop-is-almost-a-dead-ringer-for-os-x/>:

    Confession time: I don't give any of the BSD-based distributions
    enough attention. One reason is that I find BSD (and all its
    children) not really suited for people who've never used Linux.
    There's a reason for that issue: BSD is not Linux. BSD is more
    Unix than Linux, and Unix isn't an OS that *anyone* not
    well-steeped in Linux should touch.

    Those folks who like to keep claiming that “macOS is Unix”, in a way
    that Linux is not, might like to think a bit about this...

    The article talks about a new desktop environment (What? Another one?
    Why not?) called “Gershwin”, being developed for both BSD and Arch
    Linux.

    Whatever BSD it’s being developed for, it’ll probably be easier to
    port it to other Linux distros than to other BSD variants.

    As for macOS? Forget it.
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  • From vallor@vallor@cultnix.org to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Wed Sep 3 00:13:53 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On Wed, 3 Sep 2025 00:04:01 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro
    <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote in <10980lh$rcuc$1@dont-email.me>:

    Had to chuckle at this <https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-new-linux-desktop-is-almost-a-dead-ringer-for-os-x/>:

    Confession time: I don't give any of the BSD-based distributions
    enough attention. One reason is that I find BSD (and all its
    children) not really suited for people who've never used Linux.
    There's a reason for that issue: BSD is not Linux. BSD is more
    Unix than Linux, and Unix isn't an OS that *anyone* not
    well-steeped in Linux should touch.

    Those folks who like to keep claiming that “macOS is Unix”, in a way
    that Linux is not, might like to think a bit about this...

    The article talks about a new desktop environment (What? Another one?
    Why not?) called “Gershwin”, being developed for both BSD and Arch
    Linux.

    Whatever BSD it’s being developed for, it’ll probably be easier to
    port it to other Linux distros than to other BSD variants.

    As for macOS? Forget it.

    I'm surprised they aren't using more Cairo, including Cairo dock.
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