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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. How about ... by Dillenger69 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What about those of us that prefer to use the slide-rule? where are our apps?
    What about my old crank start car? where are all of the neat things for that?
    What about Morse code applications? where's the TCP/IP over Morse code spec?

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  2. Re:For when you're not playing games... by interiot · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Sorry, but I'm going to turn this into my own little bitch-session, and this is buried deep in the discussion so it won't hurt.

    400K attachments shouldn't be a big deal either, with the price of hard drives these days. Unfortunately, somehow we're only given 250mB network space. I'm actually an IT guy, but I'm seriously betting it wouldn't cost me near as much as it costs them to properly back up a modern disk drive.