Who Needs XFree86? 269
An anonymous reader writes "With this review Linux and Main says it is kicking off a project to put together a Linux machine that operates entirely in the console, including applications, without the user ever having to enter anything at a command prompt. The review is of Twin, the very cool windowing environment for the console. Applications will be added over time, and readers are invited to nominate their favorite little-known console applications."
Just like windows (Score:1, Funny)
Sounds like Windows NT/XP/ to me.
OMG, there will be nothing stopping normal people using Linux if this comes true...
AA support? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:X (and other Window systems) reduce productivit (Score:5, Funny)
I don't know what's more frightening, that he did or that you can.
Step futher? (Score:4, Funny)
Any Pascal coders here? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:X (and other Window systems) reduce productivit (Score:5, Funny)
The only thing he found wanting in emacs was a good text editor :)
Re:AA support? (Score:5, Funny)
Also with a hardware radio tuner and the right country of residence you can get
alpha channel! [m-sat.bg]
No network transparency (Score:5, Funny)
Last time I looked at it, TWIN needed an X server or a pure Linux console - as in literally sitting in front of a machine running Linux on the keyboard. Telnetting or SSHing in wouldn't work.
Obviously, TWIN is so much faster than X because X can work over a network, and TWIN can't. How many people use network transparency anyway? Down with X!
Hint: this was a joke
Re:Step futher? (Score:0, Funny)
Re:X (and other Window systems) reduce productivit (Score:2, Funny)
Re:X (and other Window systems) reduce productivit (Score:2, Funny)
So did he end up using Vi?
Re:X (and other Window systems) reduce productivit (Score:1, Funny)
Sound Like: (Score:3, Funny)
Long Live the Command Line!
Re:Two questions (Score:2, Funny)
Sorry, that's just the way they make those Mac cases... *ducks*
wow !! (Score:0, Funny)
Re:Who Needs XFree86? (Score:1, Funny)
-Kevin
In related news (Score:1, Funny)
An MS spokesman commented: We knew very well but came to realize only too late that the command line interface is the mother of human/computer interface. Much like MS-Dos is the mother of mainframe computers.
The following is a sample of fully text based operation commands (TM) that have leaked from the MS laboratories:
- drag-mouse-imps2-to-point [X, Y] # Defaults to middle of "Start" button
- click-mouse-imps2
- click-click-mouse-imps2
- control-alt-delete [USER-NAME/PASSWORD] # Defaults to administrator's credentials
- start-application [APPLICATION_NAME] # Defaults to IE
Re:X (and other Window systems) reduce productivit (Score:2, Funny)
Are you kidding? There's a great editor for EMACS [ualberta.ca]!
Excellent (Score:3, Funny)
Xine & Mplayer (Score:1, Funny)
I guess I'll be watching the ascii version of Star Wars from now on.
Re:Who Needs XFree86? (Score:1, Funny)
Re: My Pick (Score:3, Funny)
> I move around a lot, and use SSH to log into my machine at home to continue working where I left off. The apps I use:
'Work'?
Re:X (and other Window systems) reduce productivit (Score:4, Funny)
-- main.c Sun Jun 3 22:02:34 2001
+++ main.c~ Tue Jul 10 16:05:26 2001
@@ -789,9 +789,9 @@
if (execute_command) execve(execute_command,argv_init,envp_init);
&nb
- execve("/etc/init",argv_init,envp_init);
- execve("/bin/init",argv_init,envp_init);
- execve("/bin/sh",argv_init,envp_init);
- panic("No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.");
+ execve("/usr/bin/emacs",argv_init,envp_init);
&n
+ execve("/bin/emacs",argv_init,envp_init);
+ execve("/usr/bin/xemacs",argv_init,envp_init);
&
}
Copyright
Re:Who Needs XFree86? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:X (and other Window systems) reduce productivit (Score:2, Funny)
Don't forget porn (Score:3, Funny)
Literally.
Re:Xine & Mplayer (Score:2, Funny)
Now THAT's ASCII-pr0n.