-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2006-02-06 at 11:48 -0500, Carl Hartung wrote:
So, I used those tricks - and many people from that time, I guess.
Adversity is the mother of invention, right? I *like* command line mode for lots of reasons. It "feels" more direct and less cumbersome, particularly for system administrative tasks. Of course, there were few alternatives* to CLI when I started learning computers, so I'm biased. (*at the OS, not application level)
One of the reasons I liked Linux is that it had a CLI with the features MsDos could have had, but never had. And one thing I disliked was the sometimes cumbersome interfaces - like for example, keys like ctrl-right not working in editors, or mouse doing nothing in text mode. Thus, gpm was nice... the only program I know that uses the mouse in text mode is mc (midnight commander). I guess that user friendly programs came to Linux when graphic desktops were already in boom.
Of course, a properly configured contemporary desktop running on top of today's SUSE Linux on top of powerful hardware is a beautiful thing, too!
Yea! You can have dozens of xterms laying around ;-)
(I wonder how Erik is progressing?)
Not too well, I'm afraid.
What do you think of my misinterpreted 'red' vs. 'blue' diagnosis?
I always forget and have to look at the help guide. O:-) But then, I know better that trying to install the newest and shiniest ;-)
(I'm holding off discussing 'automatic dependency checking,', which I suspect has already been turned off, inadvertently or otherwise.) :-)
Ough. Yes, that could explain why the "xorg-x11-libs...rpm" is missing. Or the main package has wrong dependency table. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFD5967tTMYHG2NR9URAhZQAJ0W3O0ghG0+u0pwUeQypKnxpvzxVgCdEhor xtO2KVODpUAazHagpHEAJcc= =qZZA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----