[wuug-list] Collaboration Projects?

[Aaron Mavrinac]

Would someone be so kind as to document these ideas on the forum in a
neat-looking format, say under WUUG Talk? I'll make it a sticky post.
I don't have time to do this right now...

If no one comes forward with a presentation for the July meeting we
can at least put these ideas up on the big screen.

Thanks.

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Matt Draisey <matt at draisey.ca> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 14:28 -0400, Aaron Mavrinac wrote:
>> I've seen quite a few of these "rescue" CDs, but they all seem to
>> imply that you're only popping it in to fix stuff so you can get back
>> to your graphical desktop.
>>
>> What I'm proposing would involve probably developing a custom
>> slang/curses-based shell, with heavy emphasis on using screen (or
>> maybe there's something like this out there?).
>>
>> Some stuff it might include:
>>
>> - Midnight Commander
>> - vim, fully loaded
>> - Emacs, fully loaded
>> - Links
>> - Pine/mutt
>> - slrn
>> - ncftp
>> - irssi
>> - mcabber
>> - cmus
>> - TPP
>> - MySQL
>> - Nethack
>> - FreeBSD textmode games
>> - CLI components of many other apps
>>
>> Since console apps are usually very small, we can put various options
>> for the same type of app and give users lots of flexibility.
>>
>> Basing it on Gentoo would make sense, not only because I'm highly
>> biased but because USE="-X" should allow us to build most things
>> without any X lib dependencies.
>
> Your distro already exists and just happens to be one of the behemoths.
> Debian is as console friendly as a precompiled distro can be.  Packages
> which can be compiled with or without X support usually have package
> alternatives and generally reasonable dependencies.  Debian is still
> widely used as a console only distro and the debian faithful would
> mutiny if that ever changed.
>
>
>



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