If there is no kind of rich media content over internet, I would run my workstation with all text based application all the time. Hard not to love the plain and simplicity of plain text. My web browser (Opera) is the one and the only reason I need to run GUI.
Most of my frequently and favorite text based application can be run as non-interactive. Cron and script gotta love it.
Most of my frequently and favorite text based application can be run as non-interactive. Cron and script gotta love it.
===> curl: An excellent tool for manipulating http stream connection.
===> cmus: My music player of choice
===> growisofs: create and burn iso file to DVD.
===> httptunnel: create TCP/IP tunnel and stream it as http connection.
===> Lame: she is not lame, especially in audio encoding tasks
===> mplayer: Ah, just love it!
===> nmap: extremely powerful and configurable port scanner, a bit too noisy, though
===> tcpdump
===> rsync: we all know about her
===> zsh: the shell with advanced auto complete feature, you never have to type too much
===> ImageMagick: the guy behind the screen. His job is image manipulation.
===> Classic UNIX ulilities: tr, grep, sed and awk.
===> dump and restore: oldies buddies, hope I dont have to see them so often
===> w3m: web browser
===> synergy: a tool to share mouse and keyboard via TCP/IP. You will be a bit confused at the first place, then you will love it. This could be used for making fun with other people
===> telnet: one of my favorite network debug ultilities all the time
===> man: "...then the God created man..." as per my signature
===> Last but not least, vim and ssh