OneAndOneIs2

My laptop's dual-booted Vista (which it came with) and Ubuntu for a long time.

But I don't like Ubuntu all that much. It uses Gnome, and it's too user-friendly.

Yes, there IS such a thing. I hate software that tries to be helpful, and most people do if they're honest - remember the helpful paperclip is MS Office? :o)

More to the point, though, when it comes to Linux, I hate software that automates everything behind GUIs. It means that you don't know how to do anything WITHOUT the GUI.

So I used debootstrap to install a minimal Debian system tomy spare partition. I followed a couple of helpful guides on setting things up to get the non-free package repositories set up in /etc/apt/sources.list so that I could get the Broadcom wifi hardware working - courtesy of apt-getting b43-fwcutter and then running the shell script it came with. A minor mistake with the /etc/network/interfaces file cost me a reboot, as I configured the wifi as eth1 (As Ubuntu does) rather than wlan0. But that was an easy enough fix.

And now I have a computer that, currently, has no X11 installation and therefore is text-only. No GUIs at all. Command-line or nothing.

I love it :o)

I'm typing this from one of my all-time favourite browsers, links. It's text-only and I always have it installed because it makes life so much easier when you have a broken GUI or can only get to your machine via SSH. Apt is currently pulling down Xorg and FVWM so I'll get graphics sorted out soon. But I have to sort out a few things with the CLI access first. Couple of things people might like to know:

- To have a login prompt that clears the screen instead of appearing at the bottom, as root, type:

- The command line is much easier to use when it's spaced out a little. Go into .bashrc and find where it defines your PS1 variable. Put a \n in front of it. This will add an extra newline in front of the command prompt, giving you a blank line between each command. Much nicer.

Right. That's enough of that for now. Off to configure Xorg! :o)