From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Apr 30 21:22:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA23888 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 21:22:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from polaris.pacificnet.net (polaris.pacificnet.net [207.171.0.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA23865 for ; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 21:22:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bear@pacificnet.net) Received: from mustang (pm3g-20.pacificnet.net [207.171.35.69]) by polaris.pacificnet.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA00860; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 21:20:15 -0700 (PDT) env-from (bear@pacificnet.net) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 21:19:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Joey Garcia X-Sender: bear@mustang To: Don Wilde cc: Malartre , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A GUI greyscale interface by default In-Reply-To: <354925D2.7376579D@ibm.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terminal based applications are powerful because of their simplicity and minimal resorce consumption, but there are a number of great curses based tools out there. There's Midnight Commander (mc - sort of like a shell based file manager thingy), ncftp, pico, ee, and other stuff. MC even lets you use the mouse too! I don't mind nifty graphical terminal based programs. At least they don't comsume as much memory as running X and it's various applications. Joey On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Don Wilde wrote: > Like /stand/sysinstall? That's called 'curses', I believe. Not by > default, though. We don't want it! Telnet from a character-based > system/terminal is one of the most powerful FreeBSD features. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message