Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 06:53:20
Message-Id: 18881afa27b096d4a1bab899b99c14d3.squirrel@www.antarean.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo by Alan McKinnon
1 On Tue, August 20, 2013 07:58, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > On 20/08/2013 07:41, J. Roeleveld wrote:
3 >> On Tue, August 20, 2013 00:33, Neil Bothwick wrote:
4 >>> On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 22:51:38 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
5 >>>
6 >>>> I'm also lucky in that when I managed to foist all the oracle with
7 >>>> java
8 >>>> installers off onto some other team of luckless suckers, I was left
9 >>>> with
10 >>>> just the best remote interface ever - ssh and bash. So I can afford to
11 >>>> be smug :-)
12 >>>
13 >>> Those of us running ssh and zsh can easily out-smug you :)
14 >>>
15 >>> And those adding screen/tmux into the mix can become truly
16 >>> unbearable...
17 >>
18 >> When working remotely on a console, I always use screen. Been bitten too
19 >> often by dodgy links that it is a sane safety feature.
20 >
21 > Oh, are you also working in Africa since recently then?
22
23 Nope, but dodgy links exist in NL as well.
24 And considering I still remember using dial-up modems (14k4 was my first
25 one), screen was really usefull to keep my phonebills under control.
26
27 --
28 Joost