Text mode toys

[Shelagh Manton]

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 02:00:51 +0200, john wrote:

> hi!
> well..never heard of any Desktop/windowing system for the console, but did ya 
> check out aaxine...nice toy...
> so ya allready have a video player ;)
> cheers
> john
> 
>>On Sunday 09 October 2005 23:51, John Richard Moser wrote:
>> This is just a hypothetical, but what kinds of things can feasibly be
>> done without X?  Most of "Anything" is possible of course but truly to
>> what degree can we take things, just to inspire some thought?


Read about twin, which is a text mode windowing system, in a magazine
once. I think you can find it at

http://sourceforge.net/projects/twin/

I did try to compile it but without success. I wnet looking for
a ready made deb, but apparently the debian maintainers feel it it is too
buggy to worry about 

Shelagh