Comments on: No, terminal apps are not dying http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/27/no-terminal-apps-are-not-dying/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Reaching back again: ByzantineOS « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/27/no-terminal-apps-are-not-dying/#comment-46993 Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:08:37 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/27/no-terminal-apps-are-not-dying/#comment-46993 [...] that old software is frightening at all. Some of my favorite software is as old as [...]

]]> By: Reaching way back: Bonzai Linux « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/27/no-terminal-apps-are-not-dying/#comment-45112 Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:14:31 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/27/no-terminal-apps-are-not-dying/#comment-45112 [...] So you can, if you have to, reach all the way back six or seven years in the history of Linux desktops, and occasionally come up with a working machine. Just more proof that old applications don’t die. [...]

]]> By: Xyzzy http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/27/no-terminal-apps-are-not-dying/#comment-41588 Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:24:14 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/27/no-terminal-apps-are-not-dying/#comment-41588 This post came to mind a few minutes ago… A few sites for another hobby are tackling the same problem, except regarding fan-created software & websites for an old game series. I believe some projects were revitalized by skilled fans being made aware of their existence through the news posts.

In case you or someone else finds the idea interesting, thought I’d share one that seems easy to update & navigate: ultimaaiera.com

]]> By: Top Posts — WordPress.com http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/27/no-terminal-apps-are-not-dying/#comment-41352 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:07:18 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/27/no-terminal-apps-are-not-dying/#comment-41352 [...] No, terminal apps are not dying About a month ago, foo left a comment asking a fairly straightforward question: Are terminal applications becoming less [...] [...]

]]> By: Kaleb Elwert http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/27/no-terminal-apps-are-not-dying/#comment-41341 Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:21:10 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/27/no-terminal-apps-are-not-dying/#comment-41341 Sorry, I’d also like to point out that there are almost always alternatives…

Slimrat, for one, is a good download manager with either a command line or gtk interface… I only like it because it does rapidshare stuff and the like… I think there was aria2 as well, or something like that.

Plus canto is a command line rss reader…

]]> By: Kaleb Elwert http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/27/no-terminal-apps-are-not-dying/#comment-41338 Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:40:01 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/27/no-terminal-apps-are-not-dying/#comment-41338 Obmenu really needs to be coded from scratch…

Perhaps I’ll get to doing that one of these days. The code is REALLY hackish.

http://github.com/belak/obmenu2/

That has a few bugfixes…

]]> By: Links 28/12/2009: Gaming Recommendations, Emacs Embracing Bazaar | Boycott Novell http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/27/no-terminal-apps-are-not-dying/#comment-41336 Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:51:31 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/27/no-terminal-apps-are-not-dying/#comment-41336 [...] No, terminal apps are not dying But I do know, and believe in, this: Open source software has many beautiful and amazing advantages over the closed-source model. And only one of those benefits is the idea — no, the proven principle that, 10 or 20 or even 50 years down the road, someone might pick up some crusty old tarball off a backup server somewhere in a forgotten university somewhere on the planet, take a look at the source code and add a new spark of life to an otherwise lusterless, forgotten application. [...]

]]> By: Armor Nick http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/27/no-terminal-apps-are-not-dying/#comment-41334 Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:55:14 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/27/no-terminal-apps-are-not-dying/#comment-41334 Wow, thanks :)

]]> By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/27/no-terminal-apps-are-not-dying/#comment-41333 Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:44:10 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/27/no-terminal-apps-are-not-dying/#comment-41333 I was planning to duplicate the terminal-only system I run on my Thinkpad with an Ubuntu system on my 600m. I’ll try to draft up something in the next few days. In the mean time, you might want to check out INX, which is a fully installable command-line Ubuntu system with a lot of bells and whistles — probably more than I would insert.

http://inx.maincontent.net/

]]> By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/27/no-terminal-apps-are-not-dying/#comment-41332 Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:24:22 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/27/no-terminal-apps-are-not-dying/#comment-41332 Scroll down about halfway through this post here. In a manner of speaking, it’s a clean schematic of the GTIA board out of an old Atari system. The thread explains it all. There’s a closeup of Stella too, but I liked where the word “Atari” fell on the screen for the GTIA image. ;)

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