> Hmm... A real serial terminal like a VT100? (I actually still own a > vt102. But it is noisy and slow. Mostly it is my footrest these > days.)
Wow, I haven't touched a real VT100 in many years. But I used to service them, so I remember them quite well. What I meant here is the ttys that are loaded and spawned by getty. > > or an XTerm (Terminal in XFCE). > > Technically those are terminal emulators. But in casual conversation > we are often sloppy and imprecise when referring to things. Oops, I did know that. > > I have never installed a GUI on a Linux server, > > No X window system at all? So you only operate from the raw text > console? Impressive. Not even the 'twin' text window manager? Nope, I install Debian, and when I get to the tasksel portion, and I de- select everything. I then boot it up and install just what I need. Since the server sits there with it's attached monitor off 99% of the time I figure a GUI is pointless. I do everything from a console, or else via SSH in either a console on my client, or a terminal emulator. > CDE thrash too by using fvwm but fewer people today would remember > those these days.) CDE. Haven't touched that in a while either, but I do have an old SPARC in the closet with their CDE on it. I last used it in school a few years ago to code a ftp server/client app for my network programming project. BTW, that makes me sound much younger than I am. I took 28 years to get that computer science degree... > > Not sure how useful this description is but you asked... > > Bob I really appreciate the time you took to reply. I will be extremely busy for the next few weeks, so I probably won't have any real time to play with this. I did not know XFCE was a descendent of FWVM. I have fiddled with that to a small degree, and it was more than enough to do what I needed. I just did not have the time to learn it as well as I wanted, and went with the XFCE package in the interim. Thanks Nelson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/bay160-w35966c4a21b5bf358e5268ad...@phx.gbl