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From: Baho Utot on 6 Apr 2010 20:51 Sidney Lambe wrote: > On comp.os.linux.misc, Mark Hobley > <markhobley(a)hotpop.donottypethisbit.com> wrote: > > [delete] > >> I am quite surprised at how few console mode applications are >> available on Linux. > > ????????!!!! > > Let's see. I don't run X on this box at all. I surf the web with > a browser (links2) which displays images and does javascript > (though I don't) and frames and so forth. I edit images. I do > mail and news and ssh and telnet and IRC and IM and run a web > server and an FTP server and display and edit and create PDF > files and run a packet sniffer and have an excellent text editor > and create web pages and compile complex software and download > music from a certain well-known file-sharing network. I have a > superb window manager (GNU screen -- 9 open windows at present > -- no mouse involved and it has cut&paste capabilities that far > exceed anything available in a GUI window manager.) > > Currently using 43MB of RAM and 2% of my CPU's capacity with > a system load average of 7%. > > I have 964 executable binaries on my box, and none of them > require a GUI. > > I'd guess that there are probably another 10,000+ console apps > easily available for free. > > I suggest you check out sourceforge.net and ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ > just for starters. > > Sid Why?
From: Sidney Lambe on 6 Apr 2010 22:05 On comp.os.linux.misc, Baho Utot <baho-utot(a)invalid.com> wrote: > Sidney Lambe wrote: > >> On comp.os.linux.misc, Mark Hobley >> <markhobley(a)hotpop.donottypethisbit.com> wrote: >> >> [delete] >> >>> I am quite surprised at how few console mode applications are >>> available on Linux. >> >> ????????!!!! >> >> Let's see. I don't run X on this box at all. I surf the web with >> a browser (links2) which displays images and does javascript >> (though I don't) and frames and so forth. I edit images. I do >> mail and news and ssh and telnet and IRC and IM and run a web >> server and an FTP server and display and edit and create PDF >> files and run a packet sniffer and have an excellent text editor >> and create web pages and compile complex software and download >> music from a certain well-known file-sharing network. I have a >> superb window manager (GNU screen -- 9 open windows at present >> -- no mouse involved and it has cut&paste capabilities that far >> exceed anything available in a GUI window manager.) >> >> Currently using 43MB of RAM and 2% of my CPU's capacity with >> a system load average of 7%. >> >> I have 964 executable binaries on my box, and none of them >> require a GUI. >> >> I'd guess that there are probably another 10,000+ console apps >> easily available for free. >> >> I suggest you check out sourceforge.net and ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ >> just for starters. >> >> Sid > > Why? Wow. Someone who is even stupider than the guy I responded to here. I wouldn't have thought that was possible. <plonk> Sid
From: Baho Utot on 7 Apr 2010 19:47
Sidney Lambe wrote: > On comp.os.linux.misc, Baho Utot <baho-utot(a)invalid.com> wrote: >> Sidney Lambe wrote: >> >>> On comp.os.linux.misc, Mark Hobley >>> <markhobley(a)hotpop.donottypethisbit.com> wrote: >>> >>> [delete] >>> >>>> I am quite surprised at how few console mode applications are >>>> available on Linux. >>> >>> ????????!!!! >>> >>> Let's see. I don't run X on this box at all. I surf the web with >>> a browser (links2) which displays images and does javascript >>> (though I don't) and frames and so forth. I edit images. I do >>> mail and news and ssh and telnet and IRC and IM and run a web >>> server and an FTP server and display and edit and create PDF >>> files and run a packet sniffer and have an excellent text editor >>> and create web pages and compile complex software and download >>> music from a certain well-known file-sharing network. I have a >>> superb window manager (GNU screen -- 9 open windows at present >>> -- no mouse involved and it has cut&paste capabilities that far >>> exceed anything available in a GUI window manager.) >>> >>> Currently using 43MB of RAM and 2% of my CPU's capacity with >>> a system load average of 7%. >>> >>> I have 964 executable binaries on my box, and none of them >>> require a GUI. >>> >>> I'd guess that there are probably another 10,000+ console apps >>> easily available for free. >>> >>> I suggest you check out sourceforge.net and ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ >>> just for starters. >>> >>> Sid >> >> Why? > > Wow. Someone who is even stupider than the guy I responded to > here. I wouldn't have thought that was possible. > > <plonk> > > Sid Oh wow, I've been plonked by the Sid again! Seeing that he doesn't read my replies how is that possible? |