I know its been ages since I updated this blog. Its been busy. Well
since the last article I have completely migrated to linux as being my
everyday os. I run a standard PCLOS package on a Toshiba A100 and all
the hardware is recognized and works out of the box. Initially for the
first 4 -5 months spinning windows using beryl, compiz and sorting out
transparency seemed to consume alot of my time when tinkering with my
system. A few months later when I had learned how to use Linux
comfortably I realized that I was playing around in the terminal window
more and more. Below are a list of terminal based programs based on
PClinuxos. Some of them are available straight of the repository others
were compiled on the system.

1)a) Mutt — an email program (available on the PCLOS repository)
To configure Mutt which the MUA ( mail user agent) — the following have
to be configured also.(b) Fetchmail — (the transport agent that
downloads the POP and IMAP email) and (c) Procmail (the delivery agent that
filters the email to their respective mail boxes)  both need to be installed
with Mutt. Mutt itself can be configured to download pop mail but if you
are running multiple accounts then you are better off setting up
Fetchmail and Procmail.
2) Elinks — Again down loadable through your PcLinuxOS repository.
Browse the web using your terminal especially with the ‘/’ search
function you can save a lot of time.
3) irssi – An irc chat client available on the repository. If you work
on terminals and need a terminal low bandwidth connection to stay
connected this is definitely worth trying. With Bitlbee integration you
could then connect all your other chat protocols like yahoo, gtalk, icq,
aim and with a with a special plug-in available for skype.
4) snownews — rss feed for news. Still not enough experience with this
to leave an opinion.
5) Raggle — another rss feed that can run off the terminal. Have not
tried it out yet.
6) Bashblogger — blogging from your terminal. Easy to setup.
7) nano text editor — this is my favorite text editor and basically
use it as default with all my applications that require an editor.