Minimalist Computing

Stuck with a text terminal and need to surf? Just can't stand to wait for one more pop-up ad or crappy graphic to load over your 24K modem to your flashy browser? Then you need some minimal stuff.

• Browsers - Try these text based browsers. They're fast since they don't mess with graphic files.
  • Lynx - Great for cruising news sites like The Register.
  • Links - Interesting, fast, and has frames. The downside is that you can't cut and paste using X's built in methods.
• Window Managers - Are you growing old while KDE or GNOME load?
  • TWM - the original wm for X; comes with X
  • Rat Poison - Consider: “mice” is a four letter word.
  • PAWM - Puto Amo Window Manager, very simple, very small.
  • Blackbox - Like IceWM; but different.
  • IceWM - Low maintenance. Easy to use and customize.
  • evilwm
• Text editing
  • vi
  • emacs - not really minimalist, but a lot of bang for the buck.