[COFF] Alpine, was: Systemd Creator Lands At Microsoft

Adam Thornton athornton at gmail.com
Wed Jul 13 01:34:21 AEST 2022


On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 12:59 AM Michael Kjörling <michael at kjorling.se>
wrote:

> On 12 Jul 2022 09:01 +1000, from dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall):
> >> Alpine is very popular. It's using OpenRC and eyeing S6, I've heard.
> >
> > Alpine?  Where do Penguin/OS users get off using the name of a
> well-known
> > MUA (the one I'm using now)?
> If Wikipedia is to be believed, the MUA came later.
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_Linux> "Initial release August 2005"
> as compared to
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_(email_client)> "Initial release
> December 20, 2007"
>
>

Yeah well where do those file compression Johnny-come-latelies get off on
stealing the name of an Infocom-format Z-machine interpreter?

Adam
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/coff/attachments/20220712/4d675cca/attachment.htm>


More information about the COFF mailing list