Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16

Post by zeruch » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 3:52 AM UTC

robinsonb5 wrote: post #22

zeruch wrote: post #7

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.

It's a delicious irony that E is now a super-lightweight system compared with the mainstream environments that plauge our RAM chips today.

Post by angled » Sat, Apr 25, 2026, 5:09 AM UTC

zeruch wrote: post #192

angled wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I still remember how cool I thought raster was with his vaio and everything. This was the future! Transparent eterms and tasteful backgrounds everywhere.

I still have my Sony Vaio from that period. Its on a shelf covered in stickers and signatures (e.g. Illiad, ESR, Commander Taco/Hemos, etc) as a kind of keepsake, since I suspect it wouldn't even boot up after so many years of not being used. What an utterly strange epoch.