"Adam D. Ruppe" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > On Tuesday, 21 February 2012 at 03:53:20 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: > >> Heh, never seen that before. I usually just turn off all fancy settings >> after installing a new system, and just stick with a bare-bones prompt. > > I like slackware's default of \u@\h:\w\$ > > Simple, informative, reliable. >
That's default on Debian and Ubuntu, too. And if you're root, the "$" changes to "#" (I think that's pretty common though...?). I used to find the "\u@\h" kinda pointless, especially the "@\h" part. But now that I'm dealing more and more with multiple machines/VMs/users, ssh, etc., I absolutely love it. > > But, one of the sysadmins I worked with fell in love with > colors. I still have access to one of his systems, let > me pull this up... this system is slow! come on... > > Here we go: > # echo $PS1 > \033[0m\033[36mname\033[34mredacted\033[0m# > > Two different colors forming the system's name! And no > useful info. This isn't a prompt. It's a logo. > Hmm yea. I never could stand prompts that didn't at least include the working dir. It's pretty though! Crap, now I want to color-code the user and host parts of my prompts...Especially for root and live production servers, that could be downright useful: Big bright right "This is ROOT!!!", or "This is LIVE PRODUCTION SERVER!!!" staring you in the face. >> Only seven years? ;-) I've been at it for several years longer. > > I'm relatively new but just as grizzled :-) > I started about 11 years ago, but only on an occasional basis (and there was a big gap of a few years in the middle). It's been nowhere near permanent day-to-day (though that's slowly changing). So I'm practically a newbie by comparison. > > Fond memories here of video mode 13h too. That was > easy programming, and good speed too, even on those > old computers. > God yes. 0xA0000 forever! :) And on a related note, long live Future Crew! > When I finally switched to coding for these > newfangled multitasking OSes, it took a long time > to get used to not having my precious memory map. > I remember that playing high-end games in Windows (thanks to GameSDK/DirectX) just felt very weird. Took some getting used too. Actaully, even now I'm not a real huge fan of it. The multitasking can still cause stutters and such that never occur when games are able to take over 99% of the system. > > With Linux users, there's always some list of third > party stuff they need too. dmd, qt, whatever, but > always something. > I had loads of fun with dependencies when I tried to compile Git from source a few weeks ago. (Not as bad as pre-yum rpm's though.)
