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Why would you want an Apple GUI on headless hardware? Apple seems content to run Linux for their web servers[0]. Pixar, when still majority owned by Steve Jobs,
by jonhohle 11y ago
Why would you want an Apple GUI on headless hardware? Apple seems content to run Linux for their web servers[0]. Pixar, when still majority owned by Steve Jobs, used Linux for its render farms[1].
Before Steve Jobs returned, Apple was working on MkLinux[2], but that effort seemed to fizzle out, and it seemed like in later years, the idea of using Linux as a starting point was a non-starter[3]. Even Airport devices typically have run either VxWorks or - more recently - NetBSD.
0 - http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapple.com http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fap...
1 - http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/Pixar_Big_on_Linux_Clusters_-_Mac_Not_so_Much_ http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/Pixar_Big_on_Linux_Cl...
2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MkLinux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MkLinux
3 - http://www.wired.com/2008/11/the-iphone-coul/ http://www.wired.com/2008/11/the-iphone-coul/
- Gravityloss 11y agoI meant the opposite - Linux for my Macbook.