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   Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei to Tyrone   
   Re: Sorry, Mac Fans: Linux Is Actually t   
   27 Aug 25 04:56:58   
   
   XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 27 Aug 2025 01:36:35 +0000, Tyrone wrote:   
      
   > On Aug 24, 2025 at 7:37:45 PM EDT, "Lawrence D´Oliveiro"   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Apple created entirely separate OSes for its phones and its tablets   
   >   
   > What?  You clearly have no idea what you are talking about. iOS is a   
   > fork of MacOS (OS X at the time).   
      
   Completely different GUI, therefore completely different kernel. The GUI   
   is not a separate, modular layer, remember.   
      
   > iPads ran iOS until version 13.  Then iOS was forked into iPadOS because   
   > Apple started adding multiple window management, which would be silly on   
   > a phone.   
      
   The distinction is what is silly. Remember, Android invented “phablets”.   
      
   > They are all Unix.   
      
   They all license the “Unix” trademark, that doesn’t mean they follow the   
   “*nix” philosophy, as I have pointed out.   
      
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