Both IRIX and Solaris run happily without their windowing systems. IRIX even has a script for turning X off and starting up in console only mode.
IRIX servers (e.g. Origin 2100) run without X cos they don't have a monitor.
At the end of the day, UNIX is an open environment where there are a collection of processes and various ways of configuring how these are driven. This open environment allows the administrator to control everything.
This is the difference b/w UNIX and NT. In NT you're gonna get Windows - like it or not.
BTW: A company licenced NT source and called it OpenNT with a dream of making it a UNIX. Also, NT has a POSIX subsystem but it doesn't do much. I don't know how well OpenNT went as a product... haven't heard of it since.
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Well, taxes are normally paid for the upkeep of services. What has the government done for your internet access lately?
;) taxes if it went toward the development and extension of the internet infrastructure.
I wouldn't mind paying (some/little
Both IRIX and Solaris run happily without their windowing systems. IRIX even has a script for turning X off and starting up in console only mode.
IRIX servers (e.g. Origin 2100) run without X cos they don't have a monitor.
At the end of the day, UNIX is an open environment where there are a collection of processes and various ways of configuring how these are driven. This open environment allows the administrator to control everything.
This is the difference b/w UNIX and NT. In NT you're gonna get Windows - like it or not.
BTW: A company licenced NT source and called it OpenNT with a dream of making it a UNIX. Also, NT has a POSIX subsystem but it doesn't do much. I don't know how well OpenNT went as a product... haven't heard of it since.