The Latest And Greatest Console Applications?

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..."

Comments

Well...

[th1ckasabr1ck]

nmap is the best app for hacking.

emerge

[LMCBoy]

Gentoo rules. Say goodbye to dependency hell.

Re:Bleeding Edge

[Ricwot]

Nah, it looks like the kind of feebck you get from crappy sellers, he's trying to get us to use Fedora instead of the hallowed Gentoo, and thus is unworthy of uttering the words "bleeding" and "edge" within 3 sentences of each other

thanks (OT) astroturf attack response.

[twitter]

No, I had not read that post to a long dead thread. Thanks for pointing it out.

As you bothered to point it out, I imagine you are interested in what I think.

I think it's pure bullshit and I doubt that it happened at all. I'll take a moment here to answer some of the astroturfer's points for those who might be deluded enough to think an AC troll ever posted anything honest.

Twitter is not responsible for bad management or bad manners. While Microsoft is evil and their behavior is outrageous, I doubt that my posts could drive anyone to "frothing at the mouth". Simply reading Slashdot's story history is enough to convince anyone that Microsoft is evil and dangerous. I like to point back to them when I see people forget or lie about Microsoft's bad behavior. Other people's manners are not my responsibility. Nor am I responsible for managerial incompetence at other people's companies. Anyone dumb enough to let the passions of their subordinates cloud their own judgement of facts is a poor manager.

I do recommend complete removal of Microsoft from any company and house. The sooner people move the more heartache and money they save themselves. Every company has examples of screw Microsoft screw arounds that have cost them money and trouble. The way to transition depends on the company or household itself.