Comments on: Howto: Switch to a console lifestyle

By: A companion for the CLI « Motho ke motho ka botho

A companion for the CLI « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 23:33:41 +0000

[...] Get to work importing your library of favorite commands. This will probably make them a little more fun again. Or at least give you another tool in your ascension to text-only Nirvana. [...]

By: emanon

emanon — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:06:11 +0000

well, I just stumbled over this:

http://www.archive.org/details/8088CorruptionExplained

in #debian. My nerdy heart doesn’t ache anymore.

By: you want my opinion about websites I'll give you my opinion about websites

you want my opinion about websites I'll give you my opinion about websites — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 06:55:57 +0000

That’s a great idea for how-to adopt. But frankly I don’t know what-to adopt. Do you have any suggestions? For Ubuntu, that’s what everyone in this target audience is probably using.

I’ll throw one out: Alpine. Took me a few tries to get the config files set-up for IMAP in Gmail. Now I fly through deleting crap and find it easier to focus on writing emails undistractedly.

I still sign into gmail.com for Search, but for top-of-the-list reading and writing Alpine’s great.

More ideas?

By: Jraz

Jraz — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 21:35:51 +0000

That was truly inspiring. I have a made for win98 machie at work someone gave me. Now I know what to do with it.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 23:26:53 +0000

Am hard at work making the console lifestyle work for me! I am on a computer that scrolls text rather slowly, with console programs like less and more. I found a new program called ‘reed’ that paginates text files, and it JUMPS from page to page – rather than pushing up the text one line after another. Perhaps you would give reed the proper recognition by giving it a write up someday soon?

By: Theo

Theo — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:37:11 +0000

Great blog! Nearly one and half year ago I switched from Windows to Ubuntu, which saves me a lot of megs for a complete working system. But it was still too big for me, not the system (p4 3 ghz, 1gb, 200gb hd). A couple of days ago I deceided to make a smaller system (on a p2 233mhz). Just a cli installation of Ubuntu 10.10 + openbox + fbpanel. After the startup fbpanel tells me that I am using 19 mb. Terminal programs that I use at this moment are: Nano, MC, Twidge and Links2. Not much, but I am still looking for improvement. Arachne (webbrowser) would be nice, some mediaplayers and today I will give Mutt a look. It is a long way to go before you are terminal-junkie

ps. a small suggestion. There are a lot of explanations on the web to make a CLI installation of Ubuntu, and most of them are using the standard way. But when you go to the expert mode you can choose to use only the drivers needed for your system. It may be old news for those who worked longer with Ubuntu, but you never know

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:52:14 +0000

Thanks very much for your response. Lot of items here for me to research, and these will help me on my path to cli enlightenment!

By: mbohupa

mbohupa — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:55:11 +0000

Great post kmandla! Really inspiring!

By: Ruben Berenguel

Ruben Berenguel — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 09:31:55 +0000

I wasn’t aware of this. Thank you, I’ll try this evening to see how elinks rocks the net

By: mulenmar

mulenmar — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:40:47 +0000

Aaaaaand… apparently it *did* work. Sorry about that, didn’t show up before I posted the second time.