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Debian operating system

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Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 59000 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine.

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I liked that text editor—it was different, terminal-based but not clunky. Unfortunately, it was removed, and as far as I know, trying to rebuild it from the source code is largely impossible due to some strange dependencies. Just wanted to share that :)

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[–] digdilem@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Try "jed" - that's still in there and is a very similar looking curses based text editor.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago

That is nice, thank you!

[–] digital_descartes@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks a lot, I've searched everywhere but somehow don't heard of this one. I've tried it, and it's fixes one tilde problem, mix of tui and mouse navigation that sometimes becomes sketchy. Thanks a lot (again) :)

[–] digdilem@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

You're very welcome. I used it a lot before I had to learn vi for work reasons.