Let's go through every single package installed with a Linux install image. I'm going through the software included with Slackware, but these are all open source applications in libraries, so whether you're running Slackware like me or Fedora, Debian, BSD, or even Mac or Windows, you can probably download, install, and try these on your computer. So chances are, you'll be able to learn something from this podcast. Let's get started. So we're in the library section, and the next library in order is libedit. That's the first one in the E section of the libraries. And I'm going to try to really get through a bunch again, just like in the previous episode, because I'm really trying to get through this library section. It is tough. So libedit is a library from NetBSD that provides command line editing capabilities and functions, similar to what GNU ReadLine provides. That's kind of how it's described, like GNU ReadLine. Of course, the problem with describing something by comparing it to (1/53)
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