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I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, Emacs/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Emacs plus Linux.
by Ruq 3y ago
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, Emacs/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Emacs plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning Emacs system made useful by Emacs.
Many computer users run a modified version of the Emacs system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of Emacs which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the Emacs system, developed by the Emacs Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the Emacs operating system: the whole system is basically Emacs with Linux added, or Emacs/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of Emacs/Linux!
- red_phone 3y agoAbsolutely genius.
- anthk 3y agoYou joke, but an Emacs with framebuffer support and with everything statically build would be Stallman's dream: a next-gen LISP Machine.
- bheadmaster 3y agoEven better - compile Emacs as a kernel module, and run it in ring 0. ELisp would give it memory safety, so memory protection would not even be necessary. System calls have never been so cheap!
- nequo 3y agoThen we could finally live the dream and run Emacs in kernel mode sandboxed inside QEMU.
- kstrauser 3y agoMine, too!
- kgwgk 3y ago“Next-gen” is too generous. Such a poor-man’s Lisp machine would be a step back in many ways.
- jamesgill 3y ago2023 is finally the year of the Emacs operating system on the desktop.
- ddalex 3y agoDoes it come with a text editor ?
- nequo 3y agoIt does: https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil
- kristopolous 3y agoSure but it's a real bitch to learn though
- mise_en_place 3y agoYes, and as a bonus, you develop RSI and carpal tunnel syndrome when using it.
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- User23 3y agoOnly if you don’t shell out a couple grand for the space cadet keyboard!
- cykros 3y agoI literally only opened this article to make sure someone made sure this got asked. Kudos.
- m463 3y agothat's what I hird too
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- ppezaris 3y agosorry if i'm out of the loop, but i've heard what you describe as GNU/Linux, not Emacs/Linux. did emacs change to be the branding label of things like the compiler, the ---- just saw that you're probably making a joke, as i just found this :) https://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.en.html https://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.en.html
- tmtvl 3y agoThe original joke has been discussed by RMS: https://www.gnu.org/gnu/incorrect-quotation.html https://www.gnu.org/gnu/incorrect-quotation.html
- adalacelove 3y agoNice try but Emacs is actually GNU Emacs and so in the end it's GNU Emacs/Linux.