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The free software archeologist: New blog series
I have decided to begin a series of blogposts in which I will detail some of the wonderful free and open-source software of the past, software that us FOSS guys once used on a day-to-day basis but...
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The free software archeologist: #1 E is for EMACS which redefines keys.
I have to admit that I have never been a huge fan of emacs as a program – as the classic joke goes, emacs is a wonderful operating system, too bad the editor sucks. Having said that, emacs cannot be...
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The free software archeologist: #6 VIM – The editor wars heat up
While RMS was never a fan of vi the reality is that vi and emacs are not all that different. Both work on a principle known as dual-mode editing, where you have one mode for actually entering text and...
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The free software archeologist: #7 Because it’s fun to finger somebody
Finger despite the naughty name was in many ways the precursor of modern social networking sites – facebook statusses and twitter both have have significant similiarity in both their purpose and their...
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The FOSS-archeologist: #8 We are all doomed
Doom the game is almost as old as Linux – the first version came out in 1993 and brought with it a significant number of features and ideas that would become the cornerstones of the...
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The foss archeologist: #9 Netscape and Mozilla-Milestones
The very first proper graphical browser ever released was NSCA Mosaic, a browser for Unix on the X-window system it was released less than a year after the first Linux kernel was released. Within a few...
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