Computing Info

• I currently use Devuan GNU/Linux on an IBM ThinkPad T60 with Libreboot. I would normally choose Trisquel GNU/Linux for their policy of rejecting non-free software, but my laptop only has a 32-bit processor at the moment. Regardless of Devuan's allowance of non-free software/firmware repos (which I presume is only because Debian does so), I am able to use the laptop without non-free software, and without nonfree software.
• I mainly use a text console for convenience, but I will occasionally use CDE and/or MATÉ. (Why the accent)
• Some of my most used programs are CVS(1), EMACS(1), Mutt(1), and of course, TELNET(1) and SSH(1).
• My web pages are maintained on this machine manually in HTML. Some pages have CSS, but I think most of them look better without any custom styles.
• I read my e-mails on this machine using Mutt. I do not have much experience with most other e-mail client programs.
• I have several free software web browsers that I use, typically with LibreJS if that browser supports JavaScript. I continue to exhort web site developers to license JavaScript code under a free license, such as the GNU GPL. No (client-side) JavaScript, especially for things that can be done server-side, is even better yet.

Some notes

• For a short while in March 2024, so that I could start doing all of my computing on hardware that I actually own, I attempted a move to doing the work on my laptop with CVS and FETCHMAIL. Since then, most of the work handled by the coco server was moved to the then newly purchased summit server, including my web site and e-mailing, so I felt it would be fine to roll back to the previous ways of doing these things.