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From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: Computer Old Farts Followers <coff@tuhs.org>
Subject: [COFF] Re: Systemd Creator Lands At Microsoft
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 09:01:00 +1000 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2207120855281.40838@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a69f2wek.fsf@hack.org>

On Mon, 11 Jul 2022, Michael Cardell Widerkrantz wrote:

> Ha! I haven't actually used anything from Microsoft for a long time. 
> Last time I was forced to was in 2004, I think. I even had to use Word! 
> When I found VBacs which turned MS Word into a resemblance of Emacs my 
> productivity soured.

My home is now 100% M$-free; the last time I had to use it was to update 
the firmware on a GPS device which is now useless because of the GPS 
rollover bug.  In the meantime, WINE works quite well.

> Alpine is very popular. It's using OpenRC and eyeing S6, I've heard.
> 
> https://www.alpinelinux.org/

Alpine?  Where do Penguin/OS users get off using the name of a well-known 
MUA (the one I'm using now)?

-- Dave

  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-11 23:01 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 [this message]
2022-07-12  7:58         ` [COFF] Re: Alpine, was: " Michael Kjörling
2022-07-12 15:34           ` Adam Thornton
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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