Episode 3:09: The Pico-Sized History of Nano

Linux User Space

24-10-2022 • 57 mins

Coming up in this episode 1. Dropping out of the fediverse 2. The tiny text 3. Mozilla Watch 4. The community holds us ransom 5. Our app is faster than light 0:00 Cold Open 2:26 Press 'F' to Pay Respects 9:47 The Elm Mail System 10:56 Enter, PINE 11:44 PICO, the PIne COmposer 13:17 TIP Is not PICO 14:23 NANO's ANOther editor 14:57 "Lightning and the rest of 2000 17:37 2001, and the release of 1.0 18:49 2002-2015, Allegretta's gone and back again 21:37 The Drama in 2016 24:17 2016 to 2022, and my, how boring things got 25:13 About nano, and What's Next 31:26 Mozilla Watch 38:44 Feedback! 46:59 Community Focus: The Ransomware Files 48:57 App Focus: Warp 53:39 Next Time: Kali Linux 56:31 Stinger Banter Dan moves on Mastodon because the instance he is on is going away (https://ashfurrow.com/blog/mastodon-technology-shutdown/). So long, and thanks for all the fish. Announcements Give us a sub on YouTube (https://linuxuserspace.show/youtube) You can watch us live on Twitch (https://linuxuserspace.show/twitch) the day after an episode drops. History Series on Text Editors - GNU Nano GNU Nano (https://nano-editor.org) Dave Taylor's Elm Mail System (https://web.archive.org/web/20130417002359/http://www.intuitive.com/bio.shtml) Laurence Lundblade (https://web.archive.org/web/20110607212819/http://www.island-resort.com/pine.htm) and his cohorts were looking for something that had ease-of-use written all over it. Enter, Pine. The freeware-like (wayback.archive.org/web/20001201215500/http://www.washington.edu/pine/overview/legal.html) answer. "freeware-ish" label wasn't good enough. So, in 1999 (https://www.nano-editor.org/dist/v2.2/faq.html#1.3), Chris Allegretta, made changes to address that. TIP, which stood for TIP Is not Pico, 0.5.0 README (https://nano-editor.org/dist/old/). 2016 Looking for a new maintainer (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/nano-devel/2016-05/msg00012.html). Still looking (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/nano-devel/2016-05/msg00013.html) Nano leaves GNU in 2.6.0 (https://www.asty.org/whats-up-with-nano/) Debian acknowledged and accepted the change (https://packages.qa.debian.org/n/nano/news/20160620T181841Z.html). Come back to GNU in 2.7.0 (https://nano-editor.org/news.php). Latest release August 2, 2022 (https://nano-editor.org/news.php). More Announcements Want to have a topic covered or have some feedback? - send us an email, contact@linuxuserspace.show Mozilla Watch Firefox 106 is out! (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/106.0/releasenotes/) .pdf support keeps getting better and better (https://9to5linux.com/mozilla-firefox-106-is-now-available-for-download-with-pdf-annotation-firefox-view) private browsing shortcut (https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/privacy-online-just-got-easier-with-todays-firefox-release/) Firefox view (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-set-tab-pickup-firefox-view) Housekeeping Catch these and other great topics as they unfold on our Subreddit or our News channel on Discord. * Linux User Space subreddit (https://linuxuserspace.show/reddit) * Linux User Space Discord Server (https://linuxuserspace.show/discord) * Linux User Space Telegram (https://linuxuserspace.show/telegram) * Linux User Space Matrix (https://linuxuserspace.show/matrix) Feedback Menno (Email) EViL keybindings could be an option for Emacs if you are used to Vi/Vim. Thanks for the tip! JonG (Email) Glad you caught your shout out and are enjoying the podcast. We're still fans of the SK Hynix stuff too. Ryan (Email) Thanks for the Gentoo tips. I am sure we will get to it sometime soon-ish. We appreciate your feedback and are glad you are enjoying the show. Community Focus The Ransomware Files (https://anchor.fm/ransomwarefiles) App Focus Warp (https://apps.gnome.org/app/app.drey.Warp/) Next Time We will discuss Kali Linux (https://www.kali.org) and the history. Come back in two weeks for more Linux User Space Stay tuned and interact with us on Twitter, Mastodon, Telegram, Matrix, Discord whatever. Give us your suggestions on our subreddit r/LinuxUserSpace Join the conversation. Talk to us, and give us more ideas. All the links in the show notes and on linuxuserspace.show. We would like to acknowledge our top patrons. Thank you for your support! Producer Bruno John Dave Co-Producer Johnny Sravan Tim Contributor Advait CubicleNate Eduardo S. Jill and Steve LiNuXsys666 Nicholas Paul sleepyeyesvince