I managed to install Fedora 11 on a Dell optiplex 260. On the first boot - I can't launch the terminal in the graphical environment. On clicking system tools->terminal it brings up a window with title Starting terminal. It then disappears in a few seconds. Everything else works. I can get to a terminal using Ctrl-alt-f2. But cannot start the terminal within graphical environment.
It is common to cram useful information in the Unix shell prompt, but I have too many things I want to keep an eye on to fit it all in one prompt: current Gnu screen window, current directory, current time, hostname, current git branch, phase of the moon, you-name-it.
It would be saner to have a fixed status region at the bottom (or top) of the terminal to show all this information, and leave the
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There are many cool stuffs for you to start the terminal with. I already have an article about how to use fortune and cowsay in the terminal:
Start the terminal with cowsay and fortune
You can also start the terminal with archey or screenfetch:
Start the terminal with archey
Today, I will show you another cool thing to start your Linux terminal with. This time, it is a running train.
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Terminal based application , which are minimalist apps running through your terminal … some people don’t like the fancy rich GUI and prefer simple text-based UI to use …they are old school geeks . Most of the apps in this post are very old and you may recognize them as revolutionary projects such as Vi .
Are you a developer using Linux? Do you use a Version Control Software like SVN / GIT/ Mercurial ? Do you feel bored of sticking with command line client tool and looking for a Graphical tool like Tortoise SVN for Windows?
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The Share of GNU/Linux distributions (as a Desktop Operating System) has increased significantly in the past few years, and it’s growing very fast.
Among the new Linux users, most of them are common desktop users who just want to get things done without much hassle.
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