No desktop, Best programs?

[Knapp]

On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Gerhard Gaußling <ggrubbish at web.de> wrote:
> Am Samstag, 6. Februar 2010 schrieb Knapp:
>> Use ONLY CLI.
>> Have a desktop like experience.
>>
>> Can it be done? Are there limits?
>
> Try a search like this:
>
> apt-cache search CLI ncurses
> apt-cache search GUI ncurses
> apt-cache search svga
> apt-cache search  SDL
> apt-cache search text console
> apt-cache search text-based
> apt-cache search emacs
> etc.
>
> Here are some examples (I didn't verified all search results):
>
> vfu - A versatile text-based filemanager
> console-data - Keymaps, fonts, charset maps, fallback tables for
> console-tools
>
> screen - terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
> twin - a Text mode WINdow environment
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachne_(web_browser)
> http://www.glennmcc.org/aralinux/
> links2 - Web browser running in both graphics and text mode
> w3m - WWW browsable pager with excellent tables/frames support
> mutt - text-based mailreader supporting MIME, GPG, PGP and threading
> tin - A full-screen easy to use Usenet newsreader
> ncftp - A user-friendly and well-featured FTP client
> pork - Console-based AOL Instant Messenger & IRC client
> rtorrent - ncurses BitTorrent client based on LibTorrent
> gopher - Distributed Hypertext Client, Gopher protocol
>
> mp3blaster - Full-screen console mp3 and Ogg Vorbis player
> cdtool - text-based audio CD player and CD-ROM control commands
> mcdp - Small console cd player
> moc - ncurses based console audio player
> sox - Swiss army knife of sound processing
> aumix - Simple text-based mixer control program
> alsa-utils - ALSA utilities -> alsamixer, aplay, arec
> audtty - ncurses based frontend to audacious
> pytone - Music jukebox with advanced features for DJs and a text-mode
> user interface
>
> jmon - distributed resource monitor
> htop - interactive processes viewer
>
> ninvaders - A space invaders-like game using ncurses
> bsdgames - a collection of classic textual unix games
>
> mplayer-nogui - The Ultimate Movie Player For Linux
> vlc-nox - multimedia player and streamer (without X support)
> aatv - A program to watch TV in a text-based console
>
> bmv - PostScript viewer for SVGAlib
> zgv - SVGAlib graphics viewer
> aview - A high quality ASCII art image viewer and video player
>
> dosbox - A x86 emulator with Tandy/Herc/CGA/EGA/VGA/SVGA graphics, sound
> and DOS
> dosemu - The Linux DOS Emulator
>
> calcurse - text-based calendar and todo manager
> sc - Text-based spreadsheet with VI-like keybindings
> wv - Programs for accessing Microsoft Word documents
> joe - user friendly full screen text editor
> jed - editor for programmers (textmode version)
> texlive-base - TeX Live: Essential programs and files
> vim-latexsuite - view, edit and compile LaTeX documents from within Vim
>
> emacs22-nox - The GNU Emacs editor (without X support)
> emacsen-common - Common facilities for all emacsen
> emms - The Emacs MultiMedia System
> calc - An advanced calculator and mathematical tool for Emacs.
> ecasound-el - emacs binding files for ecasound sound editing environment

LOL, that is why I asked the question!!!! What is best! Yes, I know it
just opinions but that is better that what I have now.

-- 
Douglas E Knapp

Open Source Sci-Fi mmoRPG Game project.
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