Comments on: A month without X … already?

By: Six months without X « Motho ke motho ka botho

Six months without X « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:05:04 +0000

[...] back against the calendar, but if my calculations are right, it’s been about six months since I tossed X overboard on my Thinkpad. I won’t bore you with a bunch of anti-X rantings because I have spewed forth [...]

By: What’s to like? « Motho ke motho ka botho

What’s to like? « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 13:43:39 +0000

[...] What’s to like? Published 2009/07/12 Linux Leave a Comment I hold a grudge, I admit it. Months ago, when X started acting up on my central machine, I realized the time and effort spent trying to fix it could be alleviated completely by omitting it altogether. [...]

By: On the menu « Motho ke motho ka botho

On the menu « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:55:02 +0000

[...] 2009/06/07 Linux 0 Comments I have mentioned a couple times that I have been running without X for quite a while, on my main system. Here’s what’s running on it, some of which appears on the Software [...]

By: csaladokkal

csaladokkal — Sat, 23 May 2009 17:35:16 +0000

Awesome is awesome!

By: Antony Jepson

Antony Jepson — Thu, 21 May 2009 22:16:14 +0000

Surprised that many peopel share the same idea. Using a console with dvtm seems to be a lot more efficient than using X.

By: An apology, and an update « Motho ke motho ka botho

An apology, and an update « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sun, 17 May 2009 12:01:35 +0000

[...] as the primary machine in the house, for almost as long as it has been since I realized I was living without X. Once the awful truth was out, that I had abandoned the relative jumble that was the standard [...]

By: A visit with Arch « Motho ke motho ka botho

A visit with Arch « Motho ke motho ka botho — Thu, 14 May 2009 00:26:17 +0000

[...] days that machine has run completely without X — sometimes without even so much as accessing the xorg repository for Crux. Freeing myself [...]

By: Do more with less « Motho ke motho ka botho

Do more with less « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sun, 10 May 2009 11:14:05 +0000

[...] May 10, 2009 Linux 0 Comments I hope I won’t be out of line if I point out that abandoning X on one machine, eschewing both X and the framebuffer on another, and spending a lot of time [...]

By: fim completes me « Motho ke motho ka botho

fim completes me « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:25:20 +0000

[...] why is this important? Because the only “thing” I lacked, since I abandoned X on that machine, was a way to view images. I know fbi is part of the fbida package, but for some strange reason [...]

By: How could I have forgotten « Motho ke motho ka botho

How could I have forgotten « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:50:06 +0000

[...] and not just recently, but months after I spent a full week at 100Mhz, and more than a month after relinquishing X on another machine — that there’s a site practically devoted to console applications, in various states of [...]