Midnight Commander in 8.10

Felix Miata mrmazda at ij.net
Wed Oct 29 16:16:27 UTC 2008


On 2008/10/29 10:37 (GMT-0400) Mackenzie Morgan composed:

> On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 10:29 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:

>> How nice for you that you've never had broken X, and never will have, and
>> never will need to help someone else with broken X.

> When X breaks, use bash.  Simple enough.

Wrong. Not simple, unless you're familiar with it. OFM use obviates most need
to know  bash and the many tools bash users need to accomplish useful work.
In 20+ years of OFM use, I've found little need to use or learn many tools
for both cmdline and X, as OFM incorporates so many necessaries and works
regardless where you are, be it Windoz, DOS, cmdline, XFCE, Unix or whatever
your favorite or captive environment.

>> Right. You'll never need it, so no one else should have it either. Ever heard
>> of the tyranny of the majority?

> ...not shipping one specific file browser that you happen to prefer.

I'm not picky. As long as there is some OFM that works the same on both
cmdline and X on the live CD, I'm OK with it. I'm just not sure there is any
other OFM option but mc in buntu.
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