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Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?



On Nov 7, 2007 5:13 PM, charlie derr <cderr@simons-rock.edu> wrote:
> Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> > On Nov 6, 2007 8:53 PM, Andrew Sackville-West
> > <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
> >> emacs (comes with a free operating system)
> >
> > Me don't understand.
> >
>
> The long-standing joke is that emacs is a great editor, but a mediocre operating system.  Most often pitted against its arch-rival
> vi in religious wars, emacs is (in that context) somewhat "bloated" according to its detractors.  The fact that one can do email,
> webbrowsing, and work in a command-line environment simultaneously (all of that and much more without ever leaving emacs) is what
> has given rise to this mythos.

That makes me want to try out the mighty and legendary Emacs, the
poster child of the GNU project.

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