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Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16

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Re: Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16

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Post by madaxe_again »

E16 was the hook that caught me and landed me, flopping and writhing, on the decks of Linux - I saw a black and white printout of someone’s desktop, and immediately set about figuring out how to get this unbelievable coolness working on my laptop. By the time I was done I was muttering modelines in my sleep, and had already committed my first patches to a kernel module.

I wonder how many other teenagers got catfished into becoming software devs and sysadmins by the siren song of rasterman.

Re: Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16

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Post by malux85 »

madaxe_again wrote: post #2

E16 was the hook that caught me and landed me, flopping and writhing, on the decks of Linux - I saw a black and white printout of someone’s desktop, and immediately set about figuring out how to get this unbelievable coolness working on my laptop. By the time I was done I was muttering modelines in my sleep, and had already committed my first patches to a kernel module. I wonder how many other teenagers got catfished…

Me too! Looking at my old windows 98 machine and then at slackware Linux with enlightenment lured me to Linux and began a lifelong journey!

Re: Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16

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Post by torh »

malux85 wrote: post #4
madaxe_again wrote: post #2

E16 was the hook that caught me and landed me, flopping and writhing, on the decks of Linux - I saw a black and white printout of someone’s desktop, and immediately set about figuring out how to get this unbelievable coolness working on my laptop. By the time I was done I was muttering modelines in my sleep, and had already committed my first patches to a kernel module. I wonder how many other teenagers got catfished…

Me too! Looking at my old windows 98 machine and then at slackware Linux with enlightenment lured me to Linux and began a lifelong journey!

Same for me. Slackware (I guess 4.0) and E16 was my first proper Linux installation. Learned so much during that time.

Re: Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16

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Post by zeruch »

The amount of abuse I hurled at Carsten Haitzler (Raster) during our time at VA Linux (where he worked on E as well as other stuff) was a complete sitcom unto itself; at one point he debated making a "zeruch insult generator" just to streamline the verbal abuse process.

I loved using the environment but would regularly harangue him for being glib on resource usage. It really was otherwise very ahead of the curve.

Re: Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16

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Post by unwind »

Fun post! Very happy to see a 20-something year old find and fix bugs in an X11 wm from before they were born. Gives me hope.

There was some kind of editing snafu though, the loop header in the big (first) code block reads:

    for (i = 0; i
But the references to it in the text, and updated versions in the patches, show it as just

    for (;;)
That was confusing me a bit.

Re: Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16

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Post by pjmlp »

Oh, people are still using Enlightenment.

My last time I used it was still in the 1990's, before I settled into Afterstep and soon afterwards Windowmaker.

In what concerns my use of GNU/Linux, it was CDE on others.

Apparently nothing big came out of Enlightenment and Tizen.

Re: Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16

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Post by oldge »

torh wrote: post #5
malux85 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Me too! Looking at my old windows 98 machine and then at slackware Linux with enlightenment lured me to Linux and began a lifelong journey!

Same for me. Slackware (I guess 4.0) and E16 was my first proper Linux installation. Learned so much during that time.

Same for me. He definitely contributed to my fondness and wonder of Linux back then.
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