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Every time I fire up fpc to fool around and think about whether I would actually do something non-trivial in Pascal (the answer is 'no') I also fantasize about
by buescher 4y ago
Every time I fire up fpc to fool around and think about whether I would actually do something non-trivial in Pascal (the answer is 'no') I also fantasize about a very opinionated, very non-standard, text-mode Linux distribution loaded with DOS-style TUI utilities and applications. Something like that would be fun to run on devices like old routers.
- marcodiego 4y agoA long time ago, a guy created a theme for gtk+ which used text characters to draw all the widgets. He also created a text mode gdk backend. Combine both: you have gtk+ apps running on the terminal.
- folmar 4y agoDo you have some link perhaps? I can't find it but would be really curious to try.
- marcodiego 4y agoHere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27886332 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27886332 if you want a bit of history: https://web.archive.org/web/20060512213224/http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/cursed/cursed.html https://web.archive.org/web/20060512213224/http://atrey.karl...
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoYou can do that with any distro today that has an optional windowing environment.
- buescher 4y agoI mean small and really opinionated - the goal would be a look and feel more like a bells-and-whistles DOS setup than like Unix. Inspired in part by https://prog21.dadgum.com/74.html https://prog21.dadgum.com/74.html
- anthk 4y agoGrml is like that. And, before, the Ubuntu remix "Inx".