A day without X

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

Here is an interesting experience of using console applications only. As you may see everything can be done without GUI:

Web Browsing: Elinks, Lynx, Links, or w3m.
Email: Mutt.
Chat: Freetalk, Naim, IRSSI.
Reading RSS: Raggle.
File Management: Midnight Commander.
Text Editing: VIM and Emacs.
Viewing Images: ZGV.
Watching Video: Mplayer and VLC.
Playing Music: Cplay.
P2P: RTorrent.
Window Management: Twin.

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