CLI friendliness

[Shentino]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) <
jonathan at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Shentino wrote:
> > * MUDs
> > * SSH
> > * Kernel development
> >
> > Generally, how friendly is ubuntu planning to be with users like me?
>
> You can do a minimal install that will give you just VT's to begin with,
> Ubuntu has some nice screen profiles and has KMS support so you should
> get fast switching between your VT's. Ubuntu probably has most that
> you'd want to run from all your VT's packaged already, including mc,
> ethstatus, htop, irssi, mutt, figlet, ccze, links2 and much more.
>
> In short, you should be able to do anything with VT's on Ubuntu that you
> could do on any other decent system :)
>

Ok then, thanks :)

I just got a wee bit burned by the apparent forced obsolence of the vga text
console by KMS having the nasty side effect of forcing you to use fbcon.  I
think fbcon, while nice in principle, is just plain UGLY when you're used to
working in console.

Seems though it's here to stay, as apparently the big three (intel, nvidia,
and ati) are all abandoning vga console support with the enabling of KMS.

I think it's a really bad idea, but my vote might not matter much versus
video geeks high on the totem pole.

For the moment I've disabled KMS.
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