On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 01:18:21PM -0800, Mark Seven Smith wrote: > Adam wrote: > > > BTW, what release are you installing? stable? testing? > > I installed "Woody" at the advice of the list, previously; > since it was possible that the console problem had been > fixed. I've heard on the Red Hat list, people that said > they would rather be using Debian, but that their video > card is incompatible with it.
I believe they do not know what they speak of... Debian has very little to do with video as a distribution. Console runs in regular VGA or even on serial port but that is Linux not Debian... Then there is X which is X and not Debian.... So Debian <-> RedHat should have the same hardware support... On different manufacturers that support Linux distros, it says you can DL RedHat drivers or even tarballs to build for your own distro, BUT "RedHat drivers" are the same as "Debian drivers"... It's like saying that Esso gas is only for Ford and it will not run Honda!!!! > Anyway, what you say here brings up another thing: > > I HAVE A DREAM: to someday be rid of my pernicious > dependence on GUI's!!! > On Debian, you do not need a GUI or even want one for many setups. [snip] > I want to do Email and all, from console. So that when X > screws up, I don't have to worry about my mailbox > overflowing at my provider (who makes the mailbox fill > faster by sending me "notifications" that my mailbox is > going to overflow! ;-) > I've used lynx; so what else should I know about? What's a > good Email client? How I can I figure out "the Debian way" > of doing the usual tasks, from the console? (Play CD's, > for instance, or listen to Internet radio, or MP3's, all of > that). > I fetch email using cron [crontab] every 30 min. To get email from POP [and others] try fetchmail. To read email, try mutt or others.. To program stuff and have syntax highliting, try emacs, lpe,... To play mp3 files, try mpg321 To DL files if you know URL, use wget To play CDs just use cdcd and I can go on, and on, and on!! :) The only thing I never done on command line was to listen to RealPlayer based Internet Radio.. Even mp3 streamed stuff like digitally imported doesn't get handled very well by mpg321 but it works with xmms - GUI based.... There might be others on command line but I didn't search.. Go to httpd://packages.debian.org and search for any packages you may want. For most (99%) there exists a commandline equivelent. For an easier installation than apt-get, use apt-get frontend "dselect". I use it all the time... If you are a command line junkie, welcome to the wanders of Debian! - Adam PS. If you like text games, try package bsdgames. A large collection of text based games...
