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The Latest And Greatest Console Applications?

Posted by timothy on from the oggenc-sure-works-nicely dept.

An anonymous reader writes "While the 'Linux on the desktop' battle has yet to be won, KDE and Gnome are making great progress. There are too many apps to list on the cutting edge of software development for the X environment. But what about those of us stuck with old machines? Or who just want to work with the console? What console-based apps, that are undergoing just as much development as their X counterparts, do you use? Things like instant messengers and bittorrent clients, for example..."

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  1. Bleeding Edge by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The version of ls that comes with Fedora Core 2 is 5.2.1. Incredible software! Would use again! A+++++!!!!

  2. Well ... by mios · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... some folks start X from the command line, soo ...

  3. Re:fortune! by Ricwot · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's a program that is viable for enterprise systems, we just rename it to fortune-500

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    Any spare gmail invites could do better than ending up at rjw16@st-and.ac.uk

  4. plugins for lynx... by rivaldufus · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm working on a Java plugin, a Flash plugin, and a google bar - as well as a popup blocker and an anti-spyware plugin.

  5. Re:One word . . . by Draoi · · Score: 5, Funny
    Thank you for re-introducing me to NetHack. It took me five years to wean myself off that, and now I've found a MacOS X version. There goes *my* working day ... :-)

    As they say on the site;

    Thank you for the latest release of gradewrecker. My GPA just went in the corner and shot itself.
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    Alison

    "It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." - Albert Einstein

  6. Re:Why? by mattrumpus · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've got one good reason. At some places of work IM clients are banned and its easier to pretend a text based client is real work...

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    Who's with me?! I SAID... WHO'S WITH ME!!??
  7. startx by FedeTXF · · Score: 5, Funny

    The best command line tool is startx. It gives you all the power of a full graphical environment within the console.