A penguin with goofy yellow plumage on top of its head looks at you dismissively from behind a large green legend which reads, "I USE MINT BTW."

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   Daniel M. Reck (danielmreck@mas.to)'s status on Monday, 27-Jul-2026 04:29:07 JST Daniel M. Reck

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   FWIW, my original post referred to "an operating system," which could mean literally any operating system that was developed more than 10 years after 1976.

   In context the @Binder post I was replying to, it's reasonable to assume I would be talking about any Linux distro that meets the minimum qualifications of being an "operating system."

   For the purposes of the snark, any L i n u x - b a s e d o p e r a t i n g s y s t e m will do, since NONE of them existed in 1976 when Emacs was first designed and released.

   So take your pick: Linus' first boot-root distro would work. Or the original MCC, TAMU, or SLS distros. Perhaps the joke works better with Slackware or Debian. Snark doesn't compile for Arch, unfortunately. #IUseMintBTW
   
   
   Has this horse been sufficiently beaten?