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Or simply use one of the BSDs on commodity hardware for internal server needs.

At this point in time OSX/MacOS/iOS and Android/ChromeOS is pretty much the same thing. A basically proprietary platform (yeah yeah, i know about AOSP. But good luck using most apps without having Google's services installed) living on top of a vestigial _nix.




> At this point in time OSX/MacOS/iOS and Android/ChromeOS is pretty much the same thing. A basically proprietary platform (yeah yeah, i know about AOSP. But good luck using most apps without having Google's services installed) living on top of a vestigial _nix.

At least Google's stuff generally works from a Linux desktop; Apple's just refuses (including iCloud: apparently I am required to use a Mac or Windows machine to view pictures my mom posts; Apple seem to think that Linux browsers are incapable of displaying pictures and text).




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