[wellylug] Forking Linux.

[Phillip Hutchings]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 11:28:19 +1300 (NZDT), David Antliff
<dave.antliff at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Enkidu wrote:
> > The GUI-Linuxers wouldn't know what to do without their Windows
> > surrogate (OK - trolling just a tad, eh?) Many text-only Linuxers find
> > a depressingly increasing number of essential tools coming only in GUI
> > flavours.
> 
> Please name one *essential* tool that *requires* a GUI. Personally I can't
> think of any but that doesn't mean there aren't any.

Yes... I'd like to know. I have three servers (or rather two servers
and a UML instance), none of which have any sort of GUI, let alone any
peripherals attached :P

SSH is your friend. As are SSH keys ;)

> When you talk about "Forking Linux" do really mean creating different
> distributions (operating systems) for different uses? This has been done
> for years. If you are referring to forking the kernel, then that hardly
> impacts TUI/GUI preferences.

Yeah, I was confused about that. I assume he means creating a new
distro. People can get confused between Linux (the kernel) and
GNU/Linux (the kernel bundled with GNU utils+extras to make an OS).
Damn media.

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