[ Thanks to Pantos
for this link. ]
“Rolling Back the Clock: Shell only Programs
“System Administrators who remember the day when they did not
have a graphics display rarely think about wanting to time travel
for the pure joy of using a terminal. It is possible, however, to
virtually do so by using either all or mostly text only utilities
and perhaps a retro looking X windows desktop. In this text a look
at a small experiment to see how well that went in one particular
instance.“The Bare Essentials
“What are the bare essentials? The answer to that of course is
it depends. For the purposes of this little experiment the bare
essentials were mapped out as:“A retro looking X window style
Instant Messaging
irc
Some form of entertainment
Web browser to be able to read content
Music player
Flexible FTP Client”