Emacs is released
Jun. 4th, 2007 01:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pyesetzGNU Emacs 22.1 is now available. Once again, my piece made the short list (see 2nd-to-last bullet point, which ends with 'etc' so not everybody's work made the cut). Now I have to wait a few more months until some Linux distros make their new releases including this work, and then I will be a SOMEBODY.
Example distro: Fedora Core 6 was 3.3 gigabytes. My piece is about 100 kilobytes. So when Emacs-22 gets included in Fedora, I will have written about 0.00289% of a Linux distro! On the other paw, Debian Etch (which is probably the most "complete" distro) takes up 21 CD-ROMs, which is about 13.5 gigabytes, so my contribution will be only 0.000706%. Still, these numbers are quite large considering that I am only 0.0000000152% of the world's population, or even less if you include dogs.
Example distro: Fedora Core 6 was 3.3 gigabytes. My piece is about 100 kilobytes. So when Emacs-22 gets included in Fedora, I will have written about 0.00289% of a Linux distro! On the other paw, Debian Etch (which is probably the most "complete" distro) takes up 21 CD-ROMs, which is about 13.5 gigabytes, so my contribution will be only 0.000706%. Still, these numbers are quite large considering that I am only 0.0000000152% of the world's population, or even less if you include dogs.
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Date: 2007-06-05 05:19 am (UTC)Debian Etch is a monster. I might throw that on a spare system that I can flip on if I need every single piece of software ever written for Linux. It would be fun to try to assess how many man- (dog-) years went into producing a 13.5 gigabyte collection of open source software.
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Date: 2007-06-06 04:55 pm (UTC)I generally use GDB in non-graphical mode, entering p commands when I want to print variables, etc. But I have been known to use C-c C-a C-u on a source-code line!
Debian has just about every piece of free software that's been packaged and is still maintained, but that's a small fraction of all free software! The number of rabbit-years involved seems almost incalculable, like the building of a gothic cathedral by peasants.