Im on this bandwagon...text mode all the way. I hate screwing with X and the right video hardware especially when you want to breath life into an old 486 or somthing. I use win98 for my GUI to do all the windows crap-apps and telnet to my linux boxes. If you are comfortable with a CLI then it doesnt matter if your on the box or dialed over a 9600 baud modem from India, you get the same funtionality. That to me makes a powerful system. Plus, GUI's are toys 90% of the time...ncurses lib all the way!!! :) Cheers!! At 01:48 PM 11/22/00 -0600, you wrote: >On 22 Nov 2000, Dave Sherohman wrote: > >> Hell, no! X lets me have three or four shells visible at a time, with >two >> instances of mutt hiding behind them (you can have my xterms when you pry >> them from my cold, dead fingers), and WindowMaker lets me dock a crapload >> of blinkenlights as well. Some of them are actually useful. > >Phht. My reply is one word: screen. > >No, I'm not really making fun of X, but one of the things that made me a >Linux convert in the first place is that I find that for most *work*, a GUI >is nothin' but a way to spend time faster. I still get a bigger thrill >from using color text in 80 column mode than widget this or that -- so this >Thanksgivng, I'm greatful for text mode! > >Cheers, >Phil >_______________________________________________ >tclug-list mailing list >tclug-list at lists.real-time.com >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >