kmandla.wordpress.com — I know there’s a portion of Ubuntu (and other distro) users who resent six virtual consoles running at a time, in addition to the X desktop in a default Ubuntu setup. I would agree that six is probably overkill, but removing them completely would be nuts.
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bill166Mar 3, 2007
It's all about speed and shortcuts. Flipping between multiple xterms, waiting for a compile to finish and getting the next process teed up to go is .... magic.
wyndMar 3, 2007
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doubtfulsalmonMar 3, 2007
That's pretty much how I work. I use win32 (xp) as a windowing environment to support a dozen or so instances of putty (win32 ssh client) that are logged into various *nix boxes all over the place. With the exception of the laptop (a C2D Blacbook) that I use for my teaching (kubuntu + openoffice) I've never installed X (or any windowing environment) on a unix/freebsd/linux box, I just don't see the point. The command prompt is where it's at. Even in the past when I've had to support win32, I never really bothered figuring out how to do stuff with the gui, I just -, un, and type "cmd" and go to town.While you'd obviously never do anything serious with win32, it's a perfectly servicable windowing environment, with the added bonus that you get to completely avoid the whole silly Gnome -vs- KDE DSW, and all the serious stuff happens on boxes that are locked away in cabinets anyway. ssh and screen are your friends!
doubtfulsalmonMar 3, 2007
Oh, I understand alright. The ubuntians are the christians of tech. Utter f*cking hypocrites, the lot of them. They sign their little manifesto or code of conduct or whatever the hell it is, promising to be good people and to always ask themselves "What Would Shuttleworth Do?" before acting, and to generally spread goodness and kindness throughout the world. Once they've sworn on their "Official Ubuntu Book" to be good and kind, they wear their ubuntianity like a badge of honour, and use it to slap down any heathen who dares to question The One True Way(tm).Remember the Inquisition (Spanish, Potuguese, Medieval, etc)? All kinds of evil dispensed with the utter conviction that justice authorised by god was being done? Well that's what Ubuntu looks like on the inside.Doubt me? Watch how quickly and how thoroughly this post is dugg down!
anarchy99Mar 3, 2007
first thing i thought when i saw the title XBMC ROCKS!!then i read the description (what a downer)XBMC still rocks but not the right kind of console
cptcomicMar 3, 2007
> Now, I'll admit that I'm not 100% CLI when it comes to programming, but I'm fairly closeI can tell from your examples that you haven't even mastered 10% of the power of vim.
isvdamoclesMar 3, 2007
@cptcomic:Then enlighten me. I know about the tabbing in Vim itself, I just don't use it. I know about find 'n' replacing text in Vi. They just weren't pertinent to his statement that CLI programmers have limited screen real estate and programming with it supposedly can't compare to the GUI IDEs.What tools do you use in Vim that you think would make me a better programmer? (No joking)
Closed AccountMar 3, 2007
digg me down
apecatMar 5, 2007
To continue my earlier post: ...So dig up your old pc from wherever you buried it, pick a distro with good community support, hide the box in the corner and learn to use the shell to install the stuff needed for serving a basic web pages, buy a vanity domain or register a dyndns, and you've probably already tried something new. A shell server that will irssify your friends, uptime-junkiefy you and make whoever paying the electricity bill utterly insane will soon follow ;)