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From: Adam Thornton <athornton@gmail.com>
To: "Michael Kjörling" <michael@kjorling.se>
Cc: Computer Old Farts Followers <coff@tuhs.org>
Subject: [COFF] Re: Alpine, was: Systemd Creator Lands At Microsoft
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 08:34:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP2nic2GZg6S+WVzVGx89Hn5qzkyFBuYGbieA_A20Tv9H06knQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a326ad03-5325-4d82-bd5e-c7616ba87a3d@home.arpa>

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On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 12:59 AM Michael Kjörling <michael@kjorling.se>
wrote:

> On 12 Jul 2022 09:01 +1000, from dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall):
> >> Alpine is very popular. It's using OpenRC and eyeing S6, I've heard.
> >
> > Alpine?  Where do Penguin/OS users get off using the name of a
> well-known
> > MUA (the one I'm using now)?
> If Wikipedia is to be believed, the MUA came later.
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_Linux> "Initial release August 2005"
> as compared to
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_(email_client)> "Initial release
> December 20, 2007"
>
>

Yeah well where do those file compression Johnny-come-latelies get off on
stealing the name of an Infocom-format Z-machine interpreter?

Adam

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-12 15:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-08  7:40 [COFF] " Tomasz Rola
2022-07-08 10:26 ` [COFF] " Michael Cardell Widerkrantz
2022-07-09  0:29   ` Tomasz Rola
2022-07-09  1:52     ` Angel M Alganza
2022-07-09  8:35       ` Tomasz Rola
2022-07-09  8:59         ` Angel M Alganza
2022-07-10 21:39         ` Chris Hanson
2022-07-11 14:11           ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2022-07-11 21:04     ` Michael Cardell Widerkrantz
2022-07-11 23:01       ` Dave Horsfall
2022-07-12  7:58         ` [COFF] Re: Alpine, was: " Michael Kjörling
2022-07-12 15:34           ` Adam Thornton [this message]
2022-07-12 22:02             ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2022-07-12 23:34           ` Dave Horsfall
2022-07-13  7:36             ` [COFF] Re: Alpine Michael Kjörling
2022-07-12 15:56       ` [COFF] Re: Systemd Creator Lands At Microsoft Michael Cardell Widerkrantz
2022-07-12 19:48         ` Lars Brinkhoff

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