Sorry for the downtime in posting new stuff. Now we will be posting more CLI apps and *nix news.

I have been using anUbuntu desktop for the last few years doing the version upgrades and having no issues to speak of with it. But I also started to notice that the system was being a bit slow with larger applications like Firefox and others. Recently I have been moving back to my roots in terms of using terminal apps over pretty GUI versions. So I decided to take on the challenge of doing my once every two years complete reinstall of my home desktop with a slant on minimalism and cleanness.

Lately I happened to come across a handy terminal enhancement called Terminator. I enjoy using Awesome window manager but when I use Gnome or another non-tiling window manager I miss the simplicity and cleanness of having multiple terminals laid out on the screen. Terminator allows you to split terminals horizontally or vertically to emulate what a tiling window manager does with terminals. 

Terminator also has some other great features not common to others:

• Drag and drop
• Find functionality in terminal 
• Auto-logging

Terminator works with *nix flavors including Mac OSX including GNOME Terminal, KDE’s Konsole, Apple’s Terminal.app, and even PuTTY on MS Windows. It is released under GPL.

MOC (Music on Console) has been one of my new favorite terminal apps lately. It is simple to use and clean using only a few MB of memory. 

You can easily customize the look and feel and many other aspects of the application.

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This is an interesting article from 1994 on the early history of BSD. 

New Jersey, in the muggy summer of 1969, was the birthplace of Unix. It was born out of the frustration that resulted when AT&T’s BTL (Bell Telephone Labs) withdrew from the Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service) project, a joint attempt by BTL, General Electric, and MIT to create an operating system for a large computer accommodating up to a thousand simultaneous users.

The story of the subsequent growth and development of Unix is the tale of one of the major developments in computing. “[Unix] put into the realm of the user things that were just inconceivable prior to that,” notes David Tolbrook, inventor of the first dynamic cursor. He adds that Unix was not so much a great advance in computing as it was a great simplification. I t demonstrated that a relatively small operating system could run on multiple hardware platforms. Unix, for the first time, showed that an operating system could be portable, machine-independent, and affordable.

Ever wanted to run a simple stripped down calendar application in a terminal window?

Never thought about it?

Well never fear. Calcurse will fill the need with ease. You can add appointments and notes with a very clean and easy to use interface.