Re: Console only box?

[David Haughton <david@agentx.org>]

For a sound app, take a look at 'mplayer'... it plays almost any digital 
music format you can think of.  It plays video too, but that requires X 
I'm pretty sure... unless you use aalib or some sort of framebuffer 
driver possibly.

For "IM" there are plenty of command like aim, yahoo, jabber, etc clones 
out there.  A quick search on freshmeat.net will give you a bunch of 
them.  Actually, (since this is a debian list) you can find most of this 
stuff using "apt-cache search"'s.

Then you have "elm" and "lynx" for email and web and that's pretty much 
all you need, eh?

--David

Nate Duehr wrote:
> On Jun 10, 2004, at 11:26 AM, cecil wrote:
>
> > Just curious, one of my madcap ideas i had today was the idea of a 
> > console only install of debian, but with sound and sound progs 
> > installed. Just for giggles, does anyone have a setup like this? No X, 
> > just console? Are their IM programs, and such? How would you setup 
> > such a install to have full functionality, just no X or X progs?
>
>
> Of course there are... on most machines in the early 1990's, starting X 
> was only done for very specific applications because it took so much 
> horsepower to do it!
>
> And there's zero reason to run X on most servers.  Especially 
> security-hardened ones.
>
> Unix/Linux started out as a command-line OS, and will always have 
> command-line equivalents for most things.
>
> There are thousands and thousands of Linux machines out there running 
> without X.
>
> X is just for desktop eye candy and cut-n-paste.  ;-)  Nothing that vi, 
> awk, sed, and grep couldn't conquer for 20 years prior...
>
> --
> Nate Duehr, nate@natetech.com