Re: 3 gigs enough?

[John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au>]

Zenaan Harkness wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 04:36, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
>  
>
> > On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 01:33:25PM -0500, Cecil wrote:
> > | Ok... Is there a lighter ide?
> >
> > UNIX /is/ the IDE.
> > vim, ctags, make/ant, ls, find, grep, gcc/g++/python/jikes/java etc., etc.
> >    
>
> And along with vim, I recommend a good console - I am using
> gnome-terminal, but perhaps just xterm -sl 2000 will be lighter for you.
>
> Run two or three consoles on two or three virtual desktops, and you can
> quickly switch between coding/ testing/ yada environment.
>
> Unix really does rock...
>
>  

screen is good too. Here's what you need to get started;
screen
^ac   create another virtual terminal
^a[0-9]  switch to  terminal [0-9]
^d   detach
screen -r   # reconnect
screen -ls # list terminal sessions (copies of termina)

With screen you can get by without a GUI at all. Unless you really 
_must_ have one.