Re: linux learning experience

On 2007-07-17, andrew <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2007-07-17, Dawid Michalczyk <dm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


I _know_ what I want now. I have a dislike for ornate desktops and
fancy gui apps, my newsreader is the cvs version of slrn, my email
program is mutt, both of which I compiled from source. I need a good

You'll love Slack, both slrn and mutt included by default along with
other popular cli apps.

solid browser, reliable ftp and access to Bluefish for HTML.

yeah, several browser choices and ftp/sftp. No bluefish, but kde
comes with quanta.

Above all I need a solid but unobtrusive distro which allows me to
_do_ things while still being infinitely customisable.

All *nix are infinitely customizable, it's how it is done that makes
slack different. Slack uses simple shell config scripts that are
heavily commented and user friendly and apps and programs are vanilla
versions with no slack-knows-better customization. You seem to be
comfortable with cli, so it should be no problem.

PS BTW which desktop do you use yourself?

Slack comes with half dozen desktops from the kitchen-sink kde to the
brutally austere twm and blackbox. Use one or several. I use kde
most of the time and xfce when I need system resources for graphics.

nb
.

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