The CentOS-5.3 i386 live CD

Posted May 27, 2009 17:51 UTC (Wed) by pr1268 (guest, #24648)
Parent article: The CentOS-5.3 i386 live CD

What?? No Emacs? A Linux distro without Emacs is like a car without wheels. (Sorry, I couldn't think of a better analogy at the moment.)

While they're at it, why not remove cp, ls, and cat in order to save space? ;)

without wheels

Posted May 27, 2009 18:05 UTC (Wed) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167) [Link] (2 responses)

Maybe not a car, a chair perhaps. Yeah, a Linux distro without Emacs is like a chair without wheels.

without wheels

Posted May 27, 2009 19:26 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (1 responses)

I wouldn't want to write code or recover systems without wheels on my
chair. Would you?

without wheels

Posted May 27, 2009 20:06 UTC (Wed) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167) [Link]

Sadly my wheeled chair broke a while back. So in fact I do work from an ordinary non-wheeled chair. I hoped to replace it quite quickly, but in store after store I saw the exact same poor welding which had caused my chair to fail, even on very expensive chairs. The nice leather, adjustable arms, even fancy surfaces like glass or hand-woven fabrics all hide the same welded steel plate, presumably from a single manufacturer that's discovered they can sell it for less than anyone else so long as they use dirt cheap labour with poor equipment in a third world country.

So, when I have a spare weekend I plan to look around and find someone, somewhere who isn't using these parts in their chairs and then maybe I can buy one that will last more than 18 months without me having to treat it like a fragile antique.

The CentOS-5.3 i386 live CD

Posted May 27, 2009 18:29 UTC (Wed) by wzzrd (subscriber, #12309) [Link] (1 responses)

What's the problem with removing emacs? I mean, the CD already contains an operating system as it is. Why add a second one? ;-)

The CentOS-5.3 i386 live CD

Posted May 27, 2009 22:01 UTC (Wed) by fjorba (guest, #6175) [Link]

Because the whole purpose of the first one is to boot and allow the second one to blossom ;-)

The CentOS-5.3 i386 live CD

Posted May 27, 2009 20:03 UTC (Wed) by bracher (subscriber, #4039) [Link] (3 responses)

> (Sorry, I couldn't think of a better analogy at the moment.)

...like apple pie without the apples.

...like the american flag without the stripes.

I've got more, but I think those should just about cover things. ;-)

A Linux distro withouth emacs...

Posted May 27, 2009 20:43 UTC (Wed) by utoddl (guest, #1232) [Link] (2 responses)

A Linux distro without emacs...

...is like a Ferrari without a trailer hitch.

...is like a bicycle without a JATO.

Sorry, I'll stop now.

A Linux distro withouth emacs...

Posted May 28, 2009 13:46 UTC (Thu) by tdz (subscriber, #58733) [Link] (1 responses)

A userland without providing Emacs, is like Emacs without providing a userland.

Regards, Thomas

A Linux distro withouth emacs...

Posted May 28, 2009 20:46 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

I have replaced /sbin/init with XEmacs in the past, so you *can* do it.

Kernel Mode Emacs is an idea yet to come (unless the Lisp Machine counted
as an implementation).

The CentOS-5.3 i386 live CD

Posted May 27, 2009 20:05 UTC (Wed) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020) [Link]

Emacs? We don't need no steenking Emacs.

The CentOS-5.3 i386 live CD

Posted May 28, 2009 13:56 UTC (Thu) by smadu2 (guest, #54943) [Link]

emacs is not installed by default in many distros unlike vi no ?

Discliamer: I like both emacs and vi.