Hi there!

Strictly speaking I'm not running Slackware on my laptop - I'm running
Vector Linux. Well, they are kind of related and it is not relevant to my
question anyway.

I got myself an old Thinkpad with just 32mb of RAM. I've been looking
around for cheap RAM upgrades but sofar hasn't been succesfull.

The computer runs Fluxbox and IceWM ok, at least when I use programs like
Abiword, Dillo etc., but it is of course much more responsive in console
mode. I don't mind the console and I found a lot of nice programs to
increase my productivity:

* Nano (editor): word processing
* mc: file manager and ssh client
* mp3blaster: great jukebox program
* centericq: messenger . was about 2 days compiling, but this is a sweet
program!
* links: web browser
* mutt: mail client

What I really miss is a good Calendar/PIM program which is text based and
relatively easy to use. Also, does anyone else have any suggestions about
"must have" console based applications?

Thanks!

Mon, 25 Oct 2004 15:19:23 +0200, Henrik N. napisa:


> What I really miss is a good Calendar/PIM program which is text based and
> relatively easy to use. Also, does anyone else have any suggestions about
> "must have" console based applications?
>
> Thanks!

gcal for calendar/pim
I believe there is an ncurses based version of siag office suite, try to
dig it up somewhere.
--
make install, not war

Henrik N. wrote:
> relatively easy to use. Also, does anyone else have any suggestions about
> "must have" console based applications?

first... well, no, i won't mention first.

second, screen: <http://freshmeat.net/projects/screen/> (just giving you
the link for references. you won't have to compile it, as slack has a
package for it.) it basically allows you to run more than one program on a
single virtual console. it has lots of other abilities, which you can read
about in the man page.

btw, the first suggestion was emacs. ;-)

--
Joost Kremers joostkremers@yahoo.com
Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht
EN:SiS(9)

Henrik N. <henrik.hates@spam.net> wrote:
> Hi there!
---- < 8>< > --------
> What I really miss is a good Calendar/PIM program which is text based and
> relatively easy to use. Also, does anyone else have any suggestions about
> "must have" console based applications?
>
> Thanks!

Don't know of any console calendar/PIM's, however I find HNB (Hierarchical
Note Book... http://sourceforge.net/projects/hnb) easily adaptable to
this purpose. I use it as a combined day-planner/diary/address-book and
project planner. As for a calender, there's always cal.

I also find pinfo ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/pinfo) a must
have app.. It's a man/info reader, much easier to navigate than
info, with hypertext-like links to any referenced man-pages. It
also has the ability to call your mail/ftp/clients and links for
any mail-to/ftp/http references in the manuals and info pages.

Screen has already been mentioned. You might also have a look at Twin
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/twin), it's a text-based window manager.

Lastly, if you install xine (a video player), you'll also get aaxine, which
is a console based, ascii-based video player. This one's a real jaw-dropper
for any of your pals who've never experienced anything but Winders. Works
quite well if you stand at the back of the room and squint while viewing.

cheers...

--
Dutchy

FiveThreeEightZeroSevenSevenThree@telus.net (but use digits)

Henrik N. <henrik.hates@spam.net> wrote:
[...]
> What I really miss is a good Calendar/PIM program which is text based and
> relatively easy to use. Also, does anyone else have any suggestions about
> "must have" console based applications?

fbida is for me a "must have". It's a viewer for images (jpg, png, and
so on...) and gv/pdf files. Check http://linux.bytesex.org/fbida/

snownews is nice for all RSS feed lovers (can't live without, I'm a news
junkie): http://home.kcore.de/~kiza/software/snownews/

mplayer is also a must have (Sure, fbxine can handle the framebuffer
too, but lacks some features). Ummm, no need for a URL, i guess.

And don't for get to install the SDL-Library, there are lots of little
games out there, which can be played via framebuffer.

HTH,
kb

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 15:19:23 +0200, Henrik N. wrote:

> Hi there!
>
> Strictly speaking I'm not running Slackware on my laptop - I'm running
> Vector Linux. Well, they are kind of related and it is not relevant to my
> question anyway.
>
> I got myself an old Thinkpad with just 32mb of RAM. I've been looking
> around for cheap RAM upgrades but sofar hasn't been succesfull.
>
> The computer runs Fluxbox and IceWM ok, at least when I use programs like
> Abiword, Dillo etc., but it is of course much more responsive in console
> mode. I don't mind the console and I found a lot of nice programs to
> increase my productivity:
>
> * Nano (editor): word processing
> * mc: file manager and ssh client
> * mp3blaster: great jukebox program
> * centericq: messenger . was about 2 days compiling, but this is a sweet
> program!
> * links: web browser
> * mutt: mail client
>
> What I really miss is a good Calendar/PIM program which is text based and
> relatively easy to use. Also, does anyone else have any suggestions about
> "must have" console based applications?
>
> Thanks!

If you are on the console, try mlist !!! It will change the way you are
using the system.
JB

"Henrik N." <henrik.hates@spam.net> wrote:
>I got myself an old Thinkpad with just 32mb of RAM. I've been looking
>around for cheap RAM upgrades but sofar hasn't been succesfull.

Way back in the dark ages, I used to manage with 32Mb of RAM on
a 586 cpu. But still I recommend looking harder for more RAM.
There are lots of places that sell RAM, even for old laptops.

The first laptop I ran Linux on was a Toshiba with a Pentium and
40Mb, which did just fine (it was faster than my desktop with
the 586!). I've also spent a lot of time using a ThinkPad 600
with 48Mb of RAM, and that was a great plenty (still, I upgraded
it to something like 96Mb).

All of the above ran X and worked with XEmacs at the same time.
It did require a couple hundred Mb of swap space to use a
scanner or look at a large image file or to edit two or three
images at once. And of course it would be slower than molasis
in January when running out of swap. Netscape wasn't exactly
snappy and I can't imagine running Opera.

But the point is that for *normal* text based activities,
running X and using /xterm/ to provide windows with bash
commandline is *far* more convenient than using /screen/ on
virtual consoles.
>
>What I really miss is a good Calendar/PIM program which is text based and
>relatively easy to use. Also, does anyone else have any suggestions about
>"must have" console based applications?

Emacs or XEmacs (which does have things like built in calendar
programs). It's the best newsreader and email program around too,
not to mention it does fine as a text editor...

--
FloydL. Davidson <http://web.newsguy.com/floyd_davidson>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) floyd@barrow.com

Dutchy wrote:
> Lastly, if you install xine (a video player), you'll also get aaxine, which
> is a console based, ascii-based video player. This one's a real jaw-dropper
> for any of your pals who've never experienced anything but Winders. Works
> quite well if you stand at the back of the room and squint while viewing.

well, if you install mplayer and make sure you compile it with the
framebuffer driver, you can actually watch movies with normal video instead
of ascii-video.

--
Joost Kremers joostkremers@yahoo.com
Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht
EN:SiS(9)

Joost Kremers <joostkremers@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dutchy wrote:
> > Lastly, if you install xine (a video player), you'll also get aaxine, which
> > is a console based, ascii-based video player. This one's a real jaw-dropper
> > for any of your pals who've never experienced anything but Winders. Works
> > quite well if you stand at the back of the room and squint while viewing.
>
> well, if you install mplayer and make sure you compile it with the
> framebuffer driver, you can actually watch movies with normal video instead
> of ascii-video.

Just for those who don't know, xine can handle framebuffer as well (with
fbxine), and mplayer can handle ascii too

But what i really miss in xine is a _working_ option -framedrop, wich
is usefull for old machines like the one the OP is talking about.

On 25 Oct 2004 18:33:49 GMT, kb@h3c.de wrote:

[...]
> snownews is nice for all RSS feed lovers (can't live without, I'm a news
> junkie): http://home.kcore.de/~kiza/software/snownews/

For RSS feed lovers: centericq does a good job too.

[...]


Best regards,

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