Exactly! I booted into a command line screen and not the GUI logon.
I prefered CL because I didn't need to load a 16M color background
and 50 icons to inititate a talk session or read mail in Pine. :-) ..
Pj
On 16 May 2001, at 17:21, Brett W. McCoy wrote:
> > I've never seen a console screen blanker, but I am comfortable in a
> > console window and prefer it to GUI; my knowledge of Linux is very
> > limited; and I don't have a dual boot system. I do have a couple of
> > books: Linux Programming, a beginners guide which includes Perl,
> > Tcl and Gawk basics and the 4th ed Complete Resource for Linux,
> > which may not be helpful.
>
> By console, I don't mean an xterm window on your X desktop, I mean the raw
> console you log into if you are not using the GUI login (kdm, xdm,
> whatever).
>
> -- Brett
>
>
