Using Gnome Terminal

My friend Sam uses Fedora Core as his primary operating system and has become something of an expert at using and configuring it.

He’s written a short explanation of something really neat to do with Gnome-terminal to launch console programs.

I think the prevalence of console-only (CLI) programs in Linux was one of the things that nearly scared me off at first, but now I’ve come to very much appreciate them. Using Lynx I sometimes don’t even start my X server and just stay in Gentoo’s console mode after boot. Of course, it helps that Gentoo provides you with four virtual desktops of consoles even when you’re not running X.