From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ichi@ihug.co.nz Subject: Re: (X and other) basics (was: A few more things...) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 07:54:41 +0000 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3DB3B2C1.1F7929A9@ihug.co.nz> References: <200210201600.g9KG01q22591@ev6.be.wanadoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Heimo Claasen Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Heimo Claasen wrote: > > except for system (administration) utilities and some > editors there are miserably few textmode _applications_ > in those Linux "distros". What _applications_ are you talking about? Browser? lynx Mail reader? pine File manager? mc Spreadsheet? sc You should find all of these (and more!) in your "distros". However, you should not be surprised that commercial distros are orientated toward point-and-click eye-candy. That's where the market is these days and they naturally go with the flow. Cheers, Steven - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs