I've been sort of playing around with a project that may turn into something.
Basically, I've set up a really fancy console-based Linux system. There's nothing terribly new; it uses kmscon and tmux. But here's the thing: it *looks* really cool, because I've hacked a theme for it.
It's true that any Linux install can be headless (server installs by definition), but this makes me wonder about a distro that is *for* framebuffers only. Not servers, but ancient laptops, low-power systems with displays . . .
#Linux #CLI
Stephen Ramsay
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