Re: Fwd: Debian Won't Install! (System Locks Up)
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WordStar sure was the best. Banged out many a term paper on a
KayPro II...
Some free advice:
- - links is better than lynx. Supports frames.
- - The big thing I like GUIs for is for xterms. Have as many
open on your screen at once, resize them, hide them, scroll
up, etc. Much easier and more powerfull than Alt-Fx.
- - Use your char-mode programs inside these xterm windows.
- - Use a small window manager. fvwm* comes to mind. There are
many others. Since you want mostly char mode stuff, you don't
need a BIG window manager/environment like GNOME/KDE.
- - mutt seems to be the Standard Debian Char Mode Email Client.
Personally, I like pine better, but doesn't come in a binary
package, and it is not intuitive how to build it from source.
- - www.freshmeat.net is your friend. Lots of char-mode CD & MP3
players.
On Friday 11 January 2002 03:18 pm, Mark Seven Smith wrote:
> Adam wrote:
> > BTW, what release are you installing? stable? testing?
>
> I installed "Woody" at the advice of the list, previously;
> since it was possible that the console problem had been
> fixed. I've heard on the Red Hat list, people that said
> they would rather be using Debian, but that their video
> card is incompatible with it.
>
> Anyway, what you say here brings up another thing:
>
> I HAVE A DREAM: to someday be rid of my pernicious
> dependence on GUI's!!!
>
> I used to use a Z-80 CP/M system, (Remember DDT? "Kills
> Bugs dead!" ;-) I was more productive on that system,
> using the simple text-based tools it had, than I have ever
> been in Windows. Then, I believed that it was an
> "inalienable right" that a person receives development
> tools along with the OS, *whatever* OS it is.
>
> But then I was taken by a long-term illness; and now I come
> back to the world of computers, and find EEEEVIL: WINDOWS!
> AAAAAAAARGH! Now, everything is different. You can't even
> print a list of your files from Windows! What is THAT all
> about?
>
> I want to do Email and all, from console. So that when X
> screws up, I don't have to worry about my mailbox
> overflowing at my provider (who makes the mailbox fill
> faster by sending me "notifications" that my mailbox is
> going to overflow! ;-)
>
> I've used lynx; so what else should I know about? What's a
> good Email client? How I can I figure out "the Debian way"
> of doing the usual tasks, from the console? (Play CD's,
> for instance, or listen to Internet radio, or MP3's, all of
> that).
>
> I would appreciate any & all ideas.
>
> Thanks!
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