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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.

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

"It's a delicious irony that E is now a super-lightweight system compared with the mainstream environments" Absolutely.

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

it’s not a valid enlightenment screenshot without a digital blasphemy wallpaper.

(digital blasphemy is still around and still selling art.)

Yes! Thank you. That’s a blast from the past

I remember fondly of a raster talk at FOSDEM about 20 years ago: playing videos inside a terminal. Amazing!

Wow, I think I remember that talk, too. And I remember thinking, "why would anyone want to run a video inside a terminal?!" I still don't want to do that, but it was cool that enabling that feature only required a few lines of code, since EFL(?) already supported it, was already linked in, and the code to start it was minimal.

i found this one from 2012:

https://video.fosdem.org/2012/maintracks/k.1.105/EFL.webm or https://youtu.be/HfcFbHQWqu8?list=PL31210579EDD785E7

in an interview from that time he says the previous time he was at fosdem was 10 or 11 years earlier. there seem to be no recordings from that time.

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.

When all we needed was /. , freshmeat, and themes.org …

> tasteful backgrounds everywhere.

Certainly not everywhere. I definitely remember plenty of tasteless ones, some deliberately so and others just cases of other people's taste differing from mine!

This was the era of !hurl, after all …

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