Episode Details

Coming up in this episode

1. Dropping out of the fediverse
2. The tiny text
3. Mozilla Watch
4. The community holds us ransom
5. Our app is faster than light

0:00 Cold Open
2:26 Press 'F' to Pay Respects
9:47 The Elm Mail System
10:56 Enter, PINE
11:44 PICO, the PIne COmposer
13:17 TIP Is not PICO
14:23 NANO's ANOther editor
14:57 "Lightning and the rest of 2000
17:37 2001, and the release of 1.0
18:49 2002-2015, Allegretta's gone and back again
21:37 The Drama in 2016
24:17 2016 to 2022, and my, how boring things got
25:13 About nano, and What's Next
31:26 Mozilla Watch
38:44 Feedback!
46:59 Community Focus: The Ransomware Files
48:57 App Focus: Warp
53:39 Next Time: Kali Linux
56:31 Stinger

Banter

• Dan moves on Mastodon because the instance he is on is going away.
• So long, and thanks for all the fish.

Announcements

• Give us a sub on YouTube
• You can watch us live on Twitch the day after an episode drops.

History Series on Text Editors - GNU Nano

• GNU Nano
• Dave Taylor's Elm Mail System
• Laurence Lundblade and his cohorts were looking for something that had ease-of-use written all over it.
• Enter, Pine. The [freeware-like](wayback.archive.org/web/20001201215500/http://www.washington.edu/pine/overview/legal.html) answer.
• "freeware-ish" label wasn't good enough. So, in 1999, Chris Allegretta, made changes to address that.
• TIP, which stood for TIP Is not Pico, 0.5.0 README.
• 2016 Looking for a new maintainer.
• Still looking
• Nano leaves GNU in 2.6.0
• Debian acknowledged and accepted the change.
• Come back to GNU in 2.7.0.
• Latest release August 2, 2022.

More Announcements

• Want to have a topic covered or have some feedback? - send us an email, contact@linuxuserspace.show

Mozilla Watch

• Firefox 106 is out!
• .pdf support keeps getting better and better
• private browsing shortcut
• Firefox view

Housekeeping