On 28 Jul 2009, John Hasler wrote: > Mark wrote: > > When I feel adventurous one weekend I'll try a Debian install without the > > desktop environment. > > Ron Johnson writes: > > But what will you *do* with it? Mutt will frustrate you to no end, and > > the intarweb has become too graphics-oriented to make lynx/elinks widely > > useful. > > "No desktop environment" does not mean no graphics (nor does it mean no X). > There _is_ life outside CDE, KDE, and Gnome. > -- > John Hasler > >
Quite agree about desktop environments. Surprised no one has mentioned Icewm; I try other WMs from time to time but always come back to Icewm with a sense of relief. Incidentally, the same comments apply to mutt. What's wrong with it? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, and sceptical articles) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org