Re: What is an IBM Power Server really?

Let's look at it from the opposite direction...

The only "server" OS designed to require a local GUI display device that
I'm aware of is Windows Server...but that's a legacy left from it's roots
as a single user OS.

Which Microsoft has been moving away from since 1998 and the introduction
of Windows Script Host...culminating finally in the release of the command
line only Windows Server Core...

Between Navigator for i and X11....I'd say the IBM i has as much of a GUI
interface as any other general purpose non-Windows OS.

Charles



On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 8:46 AM John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 8:50 AM, Jim Oberholtzer
<midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

IBM i has supported X11 for some time. I understand almost no one uses

it

but it's there.

Interesting! So, I don't know a lot about Unix and Linux GUIs myself.
I don't know how much more work it is to get something like GNOME
working on the i. When I was an undergrad, I heard people talk about X
(on what were extremely high-powered workstations at the time) and
assumed that *was* the GUI. But as I do a bit of quick reading now, I
see it's more like scaffolding, and much more needs to be fleshed out
before you get to something close to a Mac or Windows PC.

I don't mean to move the goalposts. And I'm certainly not out to prove
that the i is lacking in any way. Indeed, leveraging the browser is in
many ways a better approach anyway, and that has been happening on the
i, and continues to gain momentum on the i. So I'm not complaining and
I'm not putting down the i. I'm just trying to address the question of
whether it has a GUI.

John Y.
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