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That’s a great essay, alright – and still stands the test of time. I remember Rick Moen’s contributions to mailing lists in the early 2000s being insightful an
by Anthony-G 7y ago
That’s a great essay, alright – and still stands the test of time. I remember Rick Moen’s contributions to mailing lists in the early 2000s being insightful and informative (for me).
When I first started using GNU/Linux in 1999 (Red Hat 6), I found it confusing to understand what all the fuss was about with libc/glibc and egcs/gcc. I think the differences had been resolved by that stage but all the related documentation referred to the split which made learning this strange new system very confusing (at the time, I knew what a compiler did but I didn’t know about anything about architectures other than x86 and I didn’t know why a C library was so important).
Rick includes a reference to the Emacs split of the early 90s. Jamie Zawinski’s reflection on this fork is quite interesting: https://anonym.to/?https://www.jwz.org/doc/lemacs.html https://anonym.to/?https://www.jwz.org/doc/lemacs.html (using the anoymiser as Jamie doesn't seem to like news.ycombinator.com as a referer).