Re: [TCLUG:15773] RHat, Suse, Mandrake hmmm which to buy

[Ben Beuchler <insyte@emt-p.org>]

On Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 12:35:33PM -0500, Christopher Reid Palmer wrote:

> I expressed the following opinion at work yesterday and was ridiculed by
> everyone except the other coder. :) The best IDE is...the text console.
> 
> ALT+F1: your editor of choice, with multiple buffers
> ALT+F2: repeat of F1
> ALT+f3: a shell, with your favorite weapons grep, wc, sed and cat at the
>         ready
> ALT+F4: a shell, with your pals the Perl debugger, the Python interpreter
>         or GCC and GDB on-hand
> ALT+F5: IRC, so you can waste some time goofing off
> ALT+F6: mpg123, so you can confuse and distract yourself
> 
> Remove 5 and 6 as the deadline approaches. I modified /etc/inittab on all
> my Linux machines to give me 11 virtual consoles, using F12 for X. (I
> often have my .xinitrc set up to launch just Netscape filling the screen,
> no wm).
> 
> I like this setup because there is no crap like window decorations, icons,
> titlebars and the like that get in the way. The text is huge and readable
> by even the blurriest of eyes. No distracting mousing. Just pure,
> beautiful text.

Dammit, Dan.

I thought it was your turn to keep an eye on Chris!  I told you we can't
let him read email unsupervised. Now look what he's done...

Ben

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