If you get use to navigating your consoles using screen, you better
checkout RatPoison. It is a very interesting Window Manager. I think it
is worth the effor to learn it for low resource systems. To bad the
name; not easy to take seriously.
Shannon Roddy wrote:
> Try hitting control-alt-{F1, F2, F3} etc when you are at a terminal.
> Or, you can also check into the command "screen". Screen will let you
> create and then switch between multiple sessions.
>
> Shannon
>
> On 2/20/06, c.a. weisheit <carl70448 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > for the past few of months i have been giving out live cds to friends to
> > introduce them to linux. after enjoying the discs some have asked me to then
> > install linux on their system so they could learn more about it. I don't say
> > anything bad about windows and i usually set them up as a dual boot system.
> > as their questions become more technical i am trying to steer them to the
> > club as new members...(time will tell?)
> > .
> > i am finally experimenting with creating custom remastered cds. i believe
> > that a custom cd with info and links to contact brlug or cajun clickers
> > would be a great promotional tool.
> > .
> > the process is not really that difficult and i have had some success.
> > so far i was able to make a remastered DSL image on a 166mhz 64mb pent
> > laptop.
> > i then copied the iso image over my home network to a machine with a cd
> > burner and burned the disk.
> > i was able to do this on such a small machine by booting up in the command
> > line. so far i have been able to add packages and window manager themes to
> > customize the disk. but to change other files will require me to open a
> > second shell during a pause in the remaster script. i may have to transfer
> > the hard drive to another unit with more ram and run the script from a term
> > in fluxbox.
> > can anyone tell me how to open more than one shell from the command line
> > (level 2 boot)?
> > also is anyone else interested in a "brlug live cd" that we could give out
> > at events etc.
> > i would enjoy any ideas or maybe a little healthy competition from other
> > members!
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