― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Saturday, 27 September 2003 22:05 (twenty-two years ago)
absolutely vi (or pico)
vi was designed to work over a 300baud modem it works beautifully everywhere.
both KDE and Gnome are much of a muchness they are still pigs as far as Human Interface goes. The best UNIX desktop is the Aqua desktop for Mac OSX, although Sun Java Desktop is getting there (built around KDE I do believe).
Distro, I don't care, but I huess I have to vote for OpenBSD, most secure and OS X is based on it. Debian is good too.
― Ed (dali), Saturday, 27 September 2003 22:17 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ed (dali), Saturday, 27 September 2003 22:18 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ed (dali), Saturday, 27 September 2003 22:20 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ed (dali), Saturday, 27 September 2003 22:21 (twenty-two years ago)
― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Saturday, 27 September 2003 22:21 (twenty-two years ago)
EMACS = original bloatware
― Ed (dali), Saturday, 27 September 2003 22:24 (twenty-two years ago)
― Girolamo Savonarola, Sunday, 28 September 2003 00:06 (twenty-two years ago)
Girolamo: 'EMACS' and 'vi' are text editors. EMACS is huge, overblown, and feature-rich. vi is minimal, but flexible, with an initially-impenetrable user interface.
ESR is Eric Scott Raymond. RMS is Richard M. Stallman. They are both prominent figures in the Open Source community, having each maintained a variety of OS projects. (although I'd say RMS was a more talented programmer than ESR, before they both became media whores)
Gnome and KDE are but two examples among a plethora of different 'window managers'. Your window manager is essentially responsible for how the user interface looks and behaves under X Windows. (the Linux equivalent of Microsoft Windows)
― Andrew (enneff), Sunday, 28 September 2003 00:13 (twenty-two years ago)
― Andrew (enneff), Sunday, 28 September 2003 00:15 (twenty-two years ago)
vi vs EMACS: EMACS. Although I did once have to buy a new keyboard, as my old one lost its control key to overuse.
ESR vs RMS: they're both mad in their own way, but I tend to find libertarian firearms-freaks a bit scary.
― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 28 September 2003 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)
2 fluxbox, has everything i need and nothing more. i don't tend to use icons for things - i generally can't see them because the desktop's full of terminal windows / xmms / mplayer / xawtv / galeon - so everything runs from the right-click menu or xbindkeys. (kde over gnome though)
3 vim, vi clone with added, er, m. i don't have the requisite fingers for emacs.
>I'm planning to learn vi sometime soon, but it's difficult considering I code 9-5, 5 days a week.
ha, i learnt vi BECAUSE i was was coding 9-5, 5 days a week. on a wyse 50 (a step up from the trends we had at university - no monitor, printed output!)
andy
― koogs (koogs), Sunday, 28 September 2003 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)
Somebody plz to tell me how to fucking install something on CentOS, since just putting wxPython on the thing is apparently too fucking complicated for this thing to handle.
Is it true that the only way to dump something on here is thru yum, since there's no adept/apt-get/synaptic for it? Christ.
― kingfish, Monday, 18 June 2007 22:57 (eighteen years ago)
I am typing this on my new install of Puppy Linux on this old ass Compaq. It is sweetness. Runs significantly faster than the Ubuntu I bought it with on Craigslist ie like a circa 2007 desktop.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 14 December 2007 08:56 (seventeen years ago)
is that an easy to install distribution or do i need need some geek glasses?
― ianmaxwell, Tuesday, 16 December 2008 02:33 (sixteen years ago)