307: Episode 3:07: Emacs Pinky

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Coming up in this episode

1. Network failures
2. Gaming wins
3. We get Emacs Pinky
4. A little browser watch
5. And we get a little manipulative

0:00 Cold Open
1:40 The Little Outage
7:45 Splitgate
10:25 The History of Emacs
23:51 Emacs, Emacs, Emacs
38:39 Browser Watch!
45:32 Kdenlive Fundraiser
47:58 Feedback
56:30 Community Focus: System Crafters
59:40 App Focus: GIMP
1:05:29 Next Time: Alpine Linux
1:09:17 Stinger

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Banter

• Dan re-installs his pfSense
• Splitgate on Steam

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History Series on Text Editors - Emacs

• GNU Emacs
• TECO editor
• TECO-6, compatible with the PDP-6
• Gosling Emacs
• Initially Gosling permitted unrestricted redistribution
• Free software movement
• UniPress began to redistribute and sell Gosling's Emacs on UNIX and VMS
• Interview in 2013 via Slashdot, Richard Stallman said:
• The Free Software Foundation is born
• Richard Gabriel's Lucid Inc needed version 19 to support their IDE, Energize C++.
• Emacs 21.1 brought
• Emacs 22.1 brought
• The last official release of XEmacs
• Emacs 23.1 brought
• Emacs 24.1 brought
• Emacs 25.1 brought
• Emacs 26.1 brought
• Emacs 27.1 brought
• Emacs 28.1 brought
• September 12, 2022 Emacs 28.2, the latest maintenance release is out

Further Reading
The Beginnings of TECO
Real Programmers Don't Use PASCAL
https://www.jwz.org/doc/emacs-timeline.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20000819071104/http%3A//www.multicians.org/mepap.html
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/history.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20131024150047/http://www.codeartnow.com/hacker-art-1/macsimizing-teco
https://web.archive.org/web/20101122021051/http://commandline.org.uk/2007/history-of-emacs-and-xemacs/

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Browser Watch

• Firefox 105
• Firefox release notes.
• Microsoft Teams is going away and being replaced by a PWA.
• Malware infested ads in Edge.
• This might be the push to move to a PWA?

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Feedback

• Mark (Youtube) Nice Green day shirt, and actually nice Nintendo shirt too, nice shirt all round.
• Larry (Email) How do you handle sharing things in multiple distros installed on the same machine?
• Bhiku (Email) Mozilla Neural Machine Translation Engine
• Unleashing the power of GNU Nano

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Community Focus

• System Crafters
• Check out the Absolute Beginners Guide to EMACS

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App Focus

Gnu Image Manipulation Program aka GIMP

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Next Time

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