Group: Minimalism

Welcome in the Minimalism Computing Ways Group - Every One is Free to Join!

This group have the goal to help users to find the most minimalistic ways to works in computing corresponding to their needs and knowledge.

The principle is to find the most K.I.S.S. solutions to do all your works with.

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Emacs

GNU Emacs respond of that way, you can configure it to respond to most of your needs.

. gnus for your mail
. w3m for the web
. emms for music and video
. ERC for irc connection
. identica-mode for identi.ca
. docview for pdf reader

GNU Emacs have the particularity to be "extensible" which mean that you can add in your Emacs some more solution to respond to your needs, for example you can use identica-mode to use identi.ca directly inside your Emacs session.

TTY

The TTY's, if you are familiar to works without X (Xorg) can does the trick too

. screen (aka gnuscreen) adds windows manager like features including: persistance after logout; multiple terminal sessions; not to mention copy and paste; plus much more!
. ssh for remote connections (scp for file transfers)

. emacs for text editing
. vim for text editing
. Alternative Text Editor: nano

. mutt for your mail
. elinks for the web (alternatives: links2 or w3m)
. mplayer for the music and video
. moc Music on Console for music player (alternatives: "mpd+frontend", ncmpc, orpheus, cmus)
. irssi for irc connection [irssi-plugin-xmpp for Jabber/xmpp instant messaging]
. mcabber for jabber/xmpp instant messaging
. wget for download
. rsync for file synchronization
. wput for ftp transfert
. rtorrent for torrents (alternatives: bittornado)
. identicurse for identi.ca client
. abook for address book (better alternative: create a text file to grep)

. htop for system monitor (colourful alternative to top)
. iftop for bandwidth monitor (requires root)
. iotop for drive I/O monitor (requires root)
. slurm colourful realtime network device monitor

Xterm

Xterm is one of the most used tool and it can also respond to most of your needs, most of tool used in TTY correspond to the one you can use in Xterm.

. mutt for your mail
. elinks for the web
. mplayer for the music and video
. irssi for irc connection

Windows Manager

StumpWM

. Stumpwm is a very nice Common Lisp write windows manger, lite & fast, ideal for GNU Emacs users

Awesome

. Awesome is a highly customizable tiling (or not) Windows Manager

Light XOrg Programs

. feh for image viewing
. uzbl for web browsing

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Minimalism

Note	Minimalism Computing Group
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Contact	Aurélien Tius
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Description	The Minimalism Computing group help you to find lighter ways in computing
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Aurelien
Bandali
Cabregis
Hellekin
Jaccas
JohnMH
Kachapur
Libre73
Minimalism
Mtmiller
NqpZ
Pei
Redbptst
Thum
Trinux
Twinotters

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