Re: Linux 6.11

On Sat, 21 Sep 2024 15:53:10 +0000, Diego Garcia <dg@chaos.rocks> wrote in
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On Sat, 21 Sep 2024 15:27:49 +0000, Diego Garcia wrote:
 

 
Probably 99% of commercial software is built with this philosophy.
 
That's why a simple text editor on Microslop Winblows can be 300Mb.
 

 
Let's contrast this with the quintessential Unix editor "cooledit,"

which

is a total GUI program with extensive features:
 
ls -l /usr/local/bin/cooledit
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 342400 Sep 25  2021 /usr/local/bin/cooledit
 
We need also the shared library:
 
ls -l /usr/local/lib64/libCw.so.1.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 597768 Sep 25  2021 /usr/local/lib64/libCw.so.

1.0.0

 
So, 342400 + 597768 = 940168
 
Thus, for only 940 Kbytes on GNU/Linux we have a text editor that

surpasses

most, if not all, Microslop text editors that require 300X the code.
 
Whew!  If that's not an indictment of the junk Microslop I don't know

what would

be.
 
Keep in mind that cooledit has syntax highlighting, compiling,

debugging, email,

and a LOT of other fundamental stuff built in -- all within less than a

megabyte

of code.
 
That's GNU/Linux power!

I just looked at Cooledit screen shots, and thought "ugh".

The fonts are fugly, for one.

I just use joe in my terminal window, which has smooth
fonts, as well as syntax highlighting.  I won't tolerate
pixelated fonts in any of my programs

$ ll /usr/bin/joe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 747344 Sep  5  2019 /usr/bin/joe

But I'm not going to play "editor wars".  If you like
Cooledit, more power to you.

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