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From: Paul <nospam@needed.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Microsoft admits that Windows is short-term support in realistic
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Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:53:10 -0500
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On Thu, 2/20/2025 4:22 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:27:56 -0500, Paul wrote:
> 
>> The original offering was "bash shell".
> 
> “Bash” stands for “Bourne-Again SHell”. So what you have there is the 
> “bourne-again shell shell”.
> 

I didn't pick the name for this thing.

I'm forced to use terminology that other
people in the group might recognize.

That's the shorthand for the "we don't know why they are doing Linux" project.
The original justification for doing it, was pretty lame.

There is probably only one other person than myself using it.
The audience here isn't really interested.

But if you want to have XEyes on your Windows desktop, you can.

     [Picture]

     https://i.postimg.cc/s2sSnJS9/xeyes-are-watching.gif

   Paul