On Wed, 23 Dec 2020 at 13:21, redbaronbrowser < redbaronbrowser@protonmail.com> wrote:
On Wednesday, December 23, 2020 10:30 AM, Stephen John Smoogen < smooge@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Red Baron Browser.. [you had me at the name since I helped come up with it 24 years ago]
Did it have anything to do with Peanuts/Snoopy?
Only in the sense that the company I worked for at the time (Spyglass Inc) wrote custom browsers for companies like IBM, Microsoft (hello Internet Explorer 1.2/2.0), Oracle, and various ISPs. Each of those browsers were usually named by the vendor as Spyglass basically sold the basic parts as Enhanced Mosaic. We asked what Red Hat wanted to call it and I believe Donnie Barnes said "whatever you want." So we went looking for a red themed name and through a lot out. [Red Bear since someone thought Linux and GPL was communist was actually the one going ahead. At this point two fortuitous items came in.. the microwaved pizza was Red Barons and the TV was playing a Peanuts episode for some of the kids of staff. Tada.. naming slapped in on the build and sent to meet 4.0 extras.
Is there anything you can do to bring back the browser and Redneck i18n support?
Not a thing. Red Baron's source code was owned by Spyglass which was bought by WebTV and then bought by... The code for Linux was terrible because Linux was the only X11 whose primary color distribution was 16bit versus 8 or 24bit like the others. This meant that the browser didn't work correctly in that until after 4.2 was shipped. Spyglass management thought of this and the Javascript support licensed from Microsoft (via IBM) were upgrades and Red Hat had them as early bug reports.
Redneck i18n work was done by Donnie Barnes partially as a dare and partially that the other language translations were taking longer than they could wait, and anyone could do the work themselves to add another one. However no one has done so in the years since because it does take a lot of work to do it without making it 'crap'.
The insanity of CentOS 8 having a EOL date 2.5 years before CentOS 7 would be easier to handle if it at least came with a "Reckon So" agreement button.
I have reached maximum email parsing and am not sure I can follow where you were going from here. I am clipping here as I am EBRAINFULL.
Which parts got included and left out of the history won't make sense until you get to the end.