On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 01:02:13PM +0100, Fr?d?ric Grosshans wrote > Le samedi 26 f?vrier 2005 ? 17:08 -0500, Walter Dnes a ?crit : > > Non-negotiable item 1) My eyes aren't what they used to be, and I find > > 80x48 on a 19-inch CRT in bright cyan text on black to be much easier on > > the eyes than GUIs. > > Just a comment on this non-negotiable item : did you look at the > high-contrast inverse video themes for gnome ? That might make you > think about thins non-negotiable item.
That is what I would do if I had absolutely no console option. Then again, it was one of the reasons I switched away from Win98SE approx 5 years ago. Console text programs were starting to vanish in Windows even back then. I can do inverse video in Blackbox, which is my preferred GUI. I have Gnome installed so I can run Gnumeric, Gimp, AbiWord, etc. However, the Gnome *DESKTOP* (and it's KDE counterpart too) are painfully slow on my 450 mhz PIII Dell with 128 megs of RAM. I use my computer to run applications, not to run "desktops". I bought the machine September of 1999, and I intend to keep it going for another year or two. -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An infinite number of monkeys pounding away on keyboards will eventually produce a report showing that Windows is more secure, and has a lower TCO, than linux. -- [email protected] mailing list
