Stupid joke aside, the year of the Linux desktop is the year that you choose to run Linux on your desktop. The end. People have been running Linux on desktop machines long before it was convenient or even sensible (Red Hat's early releases and broken GCC's come to mind)...now you can download something like Linux Mint and be up and running, fully patched, faster than you can with most Windows systems.
So yeah, the year of the Linux desktop? Whatever year you want it to be. All I can say is that I hope you're
In that sense, every year is the year of the DOS command line desktop.
Which is actually partially why it doesn't really matter to me what my distribution does, when I primarily use it as a vehicle for a shitload of terminal windows to SSH to the equipment and servers that I have to maintain. I need decent fonts (which there are tons of them out there now), a good window manager (and they all have the same window managers basically), good web browsers (plural, since I need to keep some mutually-incompatibl
> I'm in a similar situation with similar requirements, which is why I use OSX.
Unfortunately, that means that you have to use Mac hardware. That's not really a good tradeoff at all. That's especially true if you are ignoring the parts that are most often used by anyone else.
I regularly use many of the keys that Apple either leaves off of their keyboards or requires the use of a meta-key to access, which becomes a problem of that key is supposed to be used in key-combinations which don't work well with meta-keys.
I'm also sitting at a computer with five USB ports, four of which are in use for console cables. This is a problem if I don't want to use a USB hub.
I like that my native command shell has everything local too, not just for network access. I sometimes have to serial-console into devices. I also like that I have immediate access to my entire filesystem from the terminal window, unlike when cygwin runs in its own separate thing.
I have a Windows machine for field work, I installed a modified port of the cygwin SSH client that runs from the command prompt, but it has a problem in that it doesn't understand the Microsoft/Windows home directory structure
Working on one terminal. Monitoring pings or other stats on another terminal. Documenting (*gasp!*) on another terminal. I usually have four 132x44 terminal windows open in a quad-layout on each screen in my window manager. Works fine that way.
Though I do admit that when I use the dumb-terminal on my desk (yes, I actually have a Wyse VT52 terminal in-service on my desk) I end up using screen.
Trying to be happy is like trying to build a machine for which the only
specification is that it should run noiselessly.
That clinches it. (Score:5, Funny)
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Stupid joke aside, the year of the Linux desktop is the year that you choose to run Linux on your desktop. The end. People have been running Linux on desktop machines long before it was convenient or even sensible (Red Hat's early releases and broken GCC's come to mind)...now you can download something like Linux Mint and be up and running, fully patched, faster than you can with most Windows systems.
So yeah, the year of the Linux desktop? Whatever year you want it to be. All I can say is that I hope you're
Re:That clinches it. (Score:2)
In that sense, every year is the year of the DOS command line desktop.
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Which is actually partially why it doesn't really matter to me what my distribution does, when I primarily use it as a vehicle for a shitload of terminal windows to SSH to the equipment and servers that I have to maintain. I need decent fonts (which there are tons of them out there now), a good window manager (and they all have the same window managers basically), good web browsers (plural, since I need to keep some mutually-incompatibl
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> I'm in a similar situation with similar requirements, which is why I use OSX.
Unfortunately, that means that you have to use Mac hardware. That's not really a good tradeoff at all. That's especially true if you are ignoring the parts that are most often used by anyone else.
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I'm also sitting at a computer with five USB ports, four of which are in use for console cables. This is a problem if I don't want to use a USB hub.
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I have a Windows machine for field work, I installed a modified port of the cygwin SSH client that runs from the command prompt, but it has a problem in that it doesn't understand the Microsoft/Windows home directory structure
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when I primarily use it as a vehicle for a shitload of terminal windows to SSH to the equipment and servers that I have to maintain.
Cue the suspender wearing Unix graybeards: "What, you don't use GNU screen on console?"
Cue the tabbed terminal users: "What, you don't use a tabbed terminal? Who needs multiple terminal windows cluttering things up.
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SuperPuTTY [google.com] is a very nice tabbed window extension for PuTTY. I use it extensively.
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Thanks for the heads up on that, I haven't used putty in a while and I didn't know putty had a tab extension.
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Though I do admit that when I use the dumb-terminal on my desk (yes, I actually have a Wyse VT52 terminal in-service on my desk) I end up using screen.