13 Jul
2022
13 Jul
'22
4:02 a.m.
Adam Thornton wrote in
<CAP2nic2GZg6S+WVzVGx89Hn5qzkyFBuYGbieA_A20Tv9H06knQ(a)mail.gmail.com>:
|On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 12:59 AM Michael Kjörling <michael(a)kjorling.se>
|wrote:
|> On 12 Jul 2022 09:01 +1000, from dave(a)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?
I "always" thought of it as a "You can call me Al" extension, or
better continuation, of the Pine mailer with the Pico editor (that
i liked), which are much, much older.
(TonyPine would have been an alternative: "Fix it again Tony".)
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)