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Who Needs XFree86?

Posted by Hemos on from the text-only-please dept.

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."

5 of 256 comments (clear)

  1. AA support? by Libor+Vanek · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does it support AA and alpha chanell? .-)

    1. Re:AA support? by listen · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yep, full ascii art support.

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

  2. Re:X (and other Window systems) reduce productivit by ahknight · · Score: 5, Funny
    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.

  3. Re:X (and other Window systems) reduce productivit by arvindn · · Score: 5, Funny
    Obligatory:

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

  4. No network transparency by lpontiac · · Score: 4, 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