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Oh. The links was 2.1pre21 instead of 2.0. I had to do one tweak to make it not get any gziped pages it can’t decode. Also tips for those who want to seriously live without X:
1. Compile links2 with graphics. Just do it. You’ll thank me.
2. Compile another links2 (version 2.1pre21 or older) with javascript supported. (Or if you don’t mind your main links being 2.1pre21 compile this one with graphics and forget the first one.) Remeber to add this line:
add_to_str(&hdr, &l, “Accept-encoding: plain\r\n”);
after this line:
add_to_str(&hdr, &l, “Accept: */*\r\n”);
in http.c
3. Get version of mplayer that can output to fbdev.
4. Learn linux shell completely.
5. Create shell scripts for common things. It may seems stupid at first but it will make your life easier. For example I have script that extracts sound out of mp4 wideos youtube-dl produces using ffmpeg and then uses lame to encode it in mp3 format.
It isn’t as hard as you might think. I’m mostly doing this because my computer has 64MB of RAM but actually this is nice experience I can recommend to anybody who knows linux well.

I actually have beenn doing this since easter but lack of js enable browsers has been reason why I couldn’t comment here. Using links2 with graphics was pretty easy as was using mplayer -vo fbdev and everything else I used was already console application. (I used links2 as my main browser even before this. now I’m commenting using links 2.0 (it had js support))

I think we need TextGNOME to be implemented! :)
(Text/console mode variant of GNOME with unified textmode windowing toolkit.)

You might also be interested in Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI/DRI2) which is faster than pure FrameBuffer, as it is allows for direct hardware access for usermode apps.

DRI/DRI2 are part of X.

DRI links: http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Links — includes OSes, Linux distros, cards supporting DRI.

DirectFrameBuffer (codenamed DirectFB) is just a replacement for X which seems to have little amount of perspectives when compared to X DRI. People say that DirectFB only supports old video cards.

:P I feel mildly offended that I read an email from my inbox, then had to follow the link, then find out how to see newest comments… all just to find someone making a comment with no value to the post.

but alas, it reminded me to see whats up with TI

X Sucks. Linux Terminal all the way! Wooot!!

@ rpb:

MINITEL !

@carlos – try installing debian off of the netinstall disk. it gives a very basic system, without x, and then install what you need, just watch to make sure that you are not installing anything that has x as a dependency

Really amazing the TTY power… I’m looking for a none X Linux distro and find “INX Is not X”, but with a problem, can’t install this distro, any one know if exist a None X distro in order to full install in a HD?

thanks in advance, best wishes.

Carlos
Venezuela