Who Needs XFree86?

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."

Comments

AA support?

[Libor Vanek]

Does it support AA and alpha chanell? .-)

Re:AA support?

[listen]

Yep, full ascii art support.

Also with a hardware radio tuner and the right country of residence you can get
alpha channel!

Re:X (and other Window systems) reduce productivit

[ahknight]

In years past, I knew of someone who used emacs as his login shell :-)

I don't know what's more frightening, that he did or that you can.

Step futher?

[Libor Vanek]

Why not directly boot up Emacs? .-)

Any Pascal coders here?

[markov_chain]

Count the flashbacks to Turbovision!

Re:X (and other Window systems) reduce productivit

[arvindn]

Obligatory:

The only thing he found wanting in emacs was a good text editor :)

No network transparency

[lpontiac]

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: My Pick

[Black Parrot]

> 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: ... centericq ... mp3blaster ... dcd ... cdrecord ... abcde ...

'Work'?

Re:X (and other Window systems) reduce productivit

[maelstrom]

You are all pussies. I patched my kernel thusly:

-- 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);
&nbs p; - execve("/sbin/init",argv_init,envp_init);
- 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);
&nb sp; + execve("/usr/local/bin/emacs",argv_init,envp_init) ;
+ execve("/bin/emacs",argv_init,envp_init);
+ execve("/usr/bin/xemacs",argv_init,envp_init);
&n bsp; + panic("No emacs found. Are you sure this is GNU/Linux?");
}

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