Subj : What's Your Go-to OS for
To   : Accession
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sun Feb 16 2025 21:56:18

  Re: What's Your Go-to OS for
  By: Accession to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Feb 16 2025 08:28 pm

 >> I still like having a low-end window manager to be able to have multiple
 >> xterms running...

 > Things like screen or tmux can do the same in a Linux console (multiple
 > sessions, even multiple sessions windowed on one screen). Heck, even nano an
 > vi(m) editors have a 'multibuffer' option to have multiple file buffers. You
 > just have to use a hotkey of some sort to switch between them.

I have been playing with tmux lately - I wish I'd known about it when I was managing 130 Linux AWS instances!

 > I thought it's main focus was 'Debian without systemd', as in it still uses
 > sysvinit.. but I could be wrong.

Devuan is debian without systemd, Trisquel is the all-free Linux distro. You were right.

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