Command Line Tips

shag · 06-10-2005, 10:32 PM

Does anyone use a pure command line system without X ?
I'm interested in what can be done on one, purely for learning purposes.
I realise a lot can be done, but wonder if there is any sites dedicated to this type of thing, besides linuxcommand.org.
Thanks...

rose_bud4201 · 06-10-2005, 10:51 PM

Well, yeah, you can do pretty much anything. Graphics editing is a bit out, though...

But web, IM, IRC (probably, never tried it), sound, coding, configuration, networking...even games (long live nethack

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I've got X and WindowMaker, but I'll usually just leave it in commandline mode if all I want is a quick email check and I don't feel like waiting for X to load.

McCloud · 06-11-2005, 07:05 AM

I use X and Gnome on my desktop. I just don't like command line workstations.

But I use a command line system on my server. It's and old machine (Dual Pentium 2 300Mhz, 256 MB RAM) and it runs perfectly. X is completely unnecessary on servers (especially the overhead of loading a graphical environment). My server runs Apache, ProFTPD, Samba, eDonkey and some other stuff.