I read an interview they have done to Richard Stallman and I was left thinking: could I live like this? The truth is that the answer is resounding and without a doubt: NO. And the truth is that I do not know anyone who does it, nor do I conceive that anyone could do it, except of course him. Maybe that's why he is who he is. But let's see some of the most incredible parts of that interview:
Most of the time I don't have an internet connection. One or two or three times a day I go online and send and receive mail. Before sending mail, I always examine and review outgoing messages. This gives me the opportunity to detect errors.
Reviewing the emails before sending them, although it seems somewhat schizophrenic to me, I could come to understand it, but not having the Internet? I'm sorry, I can't, I can't ... And I don't understand how such a relevant person in the world of computing can be "up to date" without the Internet. The good news is that you can stay away from absurd distractions.
I spend most of my time using Emacs. I run it in console mode, so I don't have to worry about accidentally hitting the mouse pad and moving the cursor, which would be a pain. I read and send messages with Emacs (email is what I do most of the time).
I switch to X when I need to do something graphic, such as looking at an image or a PDF file
Ok, Emacs is his great creation and it is logical that he lives with, for and from him but this is excessive right? The mouse seems to have an allergy! At least it recognizes that it puts the X to see images and PDFs. I, as before, I have to say that I would be unable to be in console mode all the time.
Maybe I'm a weird guy, but without my windows, without my photos and videos, and without my graphical web browser, I am nobody. Anyone around here who spends more time in console mode than in graphics mode?
Something else: Stallman doesn't drink Coke. Who can live without Coca Cola?
I have installed a package to view images in the console, I launch mplayer with some parameters to see it in full screen, I use links2, links, w3c, to navigate, but I do all this while installing with apt-build the packages that interest me
The best of both worlds is using X with a pseudo-graphical interface and using as much text as possible.
Although I do not separate myself from my graphical interface, of course.
Personally, I try to use the console as much as I can.
Living like this does not allow you to have high productivity
That depends, if you know how to use the Emacs console commands, lots of tasks are facilitated (and it does have a lot of functionalities, with the appropriate extensions), and if you are good enough the graphical environment can even be a hindrance, although it depends From the work you do, I think he just doesn't need the graphical environment to do almost everything on the computer, he also dedicates himself to programming so I don't see how a graphical environment would help him.
Be careful, I am not criticizing your answer, it is simply what I think, so that it is not understood as some kind of aggression or something.
For me that is an exaggeration, if he lives happy so well for him, as the vast majority would not do much without a graphical interface and I say it accepting that I like to use the console a lot.
I wonder if Stallman uses a microwave that his operating system is closed.
I try to use the console, even though my friends and my brother call me 'weird guy', but living without internet, no, impossible, well, sometimes it is possible, but if I'm too bored, the internet it's essential.
hey stop criticizing him. thanks to his actions that are required in his case, for being the father of free software.
He never tells us to live his way.
Also about not using X is great many times. I do use X but almost all my applications are tty since it is faster, more stable and increases your productivity.
That stallman life is necessary for him.
If you see any other Stallman interview you will see how he defends GNU / Linux as a modern system, among other things for very valid graphical environments (although it is not only modern for this reason) but that you criticize Stallman's use of the operating system, when What is sought is the freedom of the user seems pretty silly to me.
Well said
I think no one has criticized what Stallman does, I simply think that I could not live like him, without a graphic environment and practically without the Internet. But come on, what friend Richard does seems to me totally laudable, only that I couldn't, nothing more.
Let's see, I couldn't live without internet or without X11 either (but if that great solar storm they talk about so much about will really come, we wouldn't have another one and richard stallman would be better prepared xP)
This is how it is by not depending so much on the modern world if the sun will attack us so massively stallman would not depend as much on technology as we are and would be better prepared, and with the belly that he has (I do not want to offend) he would endure without reservation for a few days
regards
This is how legends are forged… and anyway, sometimes I wonder if I wouldn't want to live like him, without the modern world's dependence on the internet.
regards
Without internet I could not live.
Without the X yes, practically the only thing I use with gui is FireFox, and for cli there is w3m.
But without emacs: p. I'm fine with the terminal applications that I already use (vim, mutt, irssi, tmux, etc)
Anyone who has installed Arch will have had a good time on console: P
True true, or Slackware or Gentoo Linux xP
regards
See, I myself am using it with WM Awesome, but in fact I decided to install it partly for that reason, I wanted to start with everything in Linux, and although I had used Ubuntu a bit I did not like it so much (I do not say that it is bad, in fact in Another of my computers I use it from time to time, what I rescue the most from this is its comfort in the graphical environment -if you keep Unity- if you prefer the mouse) and I wanted to try something else, as well as they told me on IRC to try with something easier, that is very difficult and so I wanted to use it more, but since I had no idea of anything, it took me 6 days to install it and leave it working with the graphical environment, although at first I used kde, which by the way that I did not like it (it is a personal perception, I know that for many it is the best graphic environment and I respect it), although I came to give it a charming aspect at the time. Now I use this OS almost exclusively, I still use Windows but only to play games.
I want to try Gentoo, I think that is the milk and you learn a lot, but I have not given myself time for work.
I don't care a little or a lot. What matters to me is that RMS defined free software, launched it as a social movement and continues to defend it, true to its ideas (and the latter annoys a lot of people).
Not me
@Edgar: Not only those who install Arch, the same thing happened to me with ubuntu, it is already said that any distro is difficult if it is done "custom"
@GiorgioGrappa: +1
I think there is always a tendency to deviate the issue, everywhere people deviate, if they talk about Ubuntu removing Gimp, the question is what they think about that, and on the contrary, debates about Mark Shuttleworth begin to emerge. Equally here, the question is if they could live like him, and they begin to debate the achievements that he has made, I think that from there everything begins to deviate and they end up talking about things that not even the pot with the post.
Greetings: P
Instead of focusing on important things, it is already a blog full of existential doubts such as:
what would you do if richard stallman was your dad?
if bill gates was gya and linus torvalds's boyfriend?
if mac was free?
or gossip magazine
Stallmann:
I don't use a cell phone
I don't use a browser
Stallman today:
I don't use the internet
GO TO THE DEVIL STALLMAN AND HIS FAKES !!!
You go to the devil UNFORTUNATE let others live as they want it is THEIR life not YOURS, so live and let LIVE do not be like the dog in the manger that neither eats nor lets eat suck
Hahaha, you remind me of that huge guy from that old nerd revenge movie: NEEEEEEEEERDDD !!!!!
Hahaha, well, think what you want, but believe me you offend a lot of people here, even if it doesn't seem like it. I at least have a cell phone more than anything in case my boss or my mother calls me, but I don't give it other uses, and as for the browser ... nah, I do use it (I vary between Firefox in X or Elinks in Tty), but I don't see why there is something wrong with whether or not I use the browser ...
As for the internet ... I use it once a week at most. Sometimes I get pissed off and surf a couple more times a week but not that much. Is there something wrong?
Bah, it doesn't matter, there will always be trolls.
hahaha go to hell hahaha minimum you are one of those who use your facebook account to log in at everything and you don't know how easy it is to sniff your data and take your data and log in to all the applications that you have logged in to facebook and do the same with Google's and unknowingly they save your whats app conversations, your contacts, your recorded calls, your location, it is of gravity and fears for which he does not risk. Today I am a systems engineer with an emphasis on computer security, I take a risk understanding the risks because it is almost impossible not to share data, besides that today all the applications spy on you looking for information of your tastes.
to avoid taking risks you have to not connect…. he is ultra hadcore
We should thank people like him, we are not so vulnerable when handling our information on the internet.
What I don't know is why it is echoed, everyone can live as they want. In any case, what we care about him is the work he does by taking it for granted and avoiding closed licenses.
Let's see if now for wanting to live as they want the poor will be to blame
great comment.
He has never said that he wants us to live like him, it is his personal things that he shares with us.
@Pedro if it weren't for RS there wouldn't be linux or free software
«Chupy35: instead of focusing on important things, it is already a blog full of existential doubts such as:
what would you do if richard stallman was your dad?
if bill gates was gya and linus torvalds's boyfriend?
if mac was free?
or gossip magazine »
The kid is right, they have already lost the quality they had, they only make meaningless debates, they add a post from plan 9 from bell labs,
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs
I spend 90% of the time on the console at work. At home I go at times depending on what I am doing with FreeBSD it is common to have good times on the console.
Typical of a modern user, an operating system does not go through the windows and the graphical environment, because the day you face a pc in text mode… .you lost.
How about McLarenX,
Well, I work almost 75% of the time with the console, as soon as I get home I use a graphical interface.
Greetings.
I think that the console is something essential, of course you always have to know how to mix it with some graphic interfaces, but there are endless advantages of using a console, and today using too much graphics consumes more ram and more video, the luxuries cost, and how love is always born for many of the sight.
Well, if you do not understand how you can live without a cell phone or with little Internet, let me tell you that it is you who are wrong, since your mind is so closed that you cannot see other realities and options that exist in your visual framework.
Personally, since I stopped using the cell phone and be aware of the Internet, since I ordered and controlled my life, the warmth of it has increased considerably, currently I do not use a cell phone even if they pay me, and they have wanted to do it several times, but only I have a life, and I plan to enjoy it with my wife and my children ... especially with my wife.
Well I respect your opinion but if you go out there or if you have a meeting (I don't know if you will have a job) or something like that or an emergency comes up, how do you notify? Or if you have an accident with the car (God forbid) it does not have to be your fault there are many cazurros at the wheel this, what do you call the tow truck?
regards
It was necessary to clarify that he lives economically
I spend it in console mode all the time
I edit images in console mode, byte by byte. The most exciting are the png's. It can be tedious, but it's exciting to know what will happen if you trade a 3 for an F.
Stop Motion video is another of my great passions, but I can't connect the terminal to my video camera, which only has one terminal ...
Maybe Stallman is Neo, and he sees everything in source code ... that's why he doesn't need the X
A person is aware that a company has non-holy attitudes !!! read http://killercoke.org/
I can live without coke, I don't drink more than ONE on Saturdays and no more (because of the job)
I usually drink beer with soda (more soda than beer) but hey
regards
here I have a better question:
Who can live without participating in such stupid debates as the ones in this Blog?
Hello:
I propose to prepare an article about Stallman to publish it in magazinelinux.net (a new project connected with Linux +)
regards
There are many 100% free distros, this is the fight for ogg which is multimedia, so being 100% is possible and many people do it
what a bit of trash what you talk about here. Yes, you do not use the internet, you must be a person really passionate about systems without time to see p0rn0 all day like YOU!
Before you write an "article" and call Richard Stallman crazy, you should take a look at yourself. The man is a genius, and if you look at many things he says make sense and his behavior is part of his eccentricity, which for me seems funny and based on principles of freedom.
This article disgusts me, they should delete it.
The truth is that I almost only use the console (99,9%). I only go into X to watch youtube videos, very from time to time. And I am a person who watches a lot of videos, photos and plays !. I use centerim for chat (it has some option other than pidgin), mplayer for music and video, fbida for photos and pdf (video and images use the framebuffer driver). Now I write to you using links, which apart from its text mode, it has a graphical mode in the console if you pass the -g command to it, being able to see the web images. In short, in the console I can do everything except navigate with javascript.
who knows
Stallman lives like this because he's a guru
we ARE mere mortals !!!
Lately I use the internet very little (if at all to check forums), but I do not survive it without KDE or GNOME or any graphical interface
fbi ==> view images on console
fbgs ==> see pdf in console
alpine ==> mail manager, better than in browser, even for gmail
centerim ==> msn, gtalk, IRC ... simultaneous on console
rtorrent ==> torrents on console
mplayer ==> music and video on console
links ==> web browser (with option -g, the webs are seen in graphic mode from the console)
dvtm ==> multiple simultaneous console sessions on one screen
aumix ==> sound mixer
wicd-curses ==> scan and connection to wifi, and network
dwarf fortress ==> my favorite ascii game, it can be run in real ascii from the console, by editing the configuration file
fuck you!
Fools, the truth for programmers, the keyboard is everything, no keyboard is needed, it does not use graphic interfaces because it does not occupy memeoria, it is mother if you only dedicate yourself to the program and much safer, the interter is safer and stallman emigienece watching video of my map Kanak duel downloading music regeton or uploading videos no mammmmm jajja well e sun boy of 15 years that precos and that is internet and what do you think if hotmail there is no internet
Or we ale from google it is genius of course they are strange antisocial so it must be distracting and think about asshole just hahaha he does not use a cell phone do not pay balance hahaha they hope that he is free hahaha the truth is strange but it is from another era this guro but little believe that that his makina safe mode is normal interface of course that must be good for stallman to use it haha of course he does not use google haha or face or anyone else suck better before criticizing better get study or you lost to finish your high school haha
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Well, I live in console mode, and 98% is to use the same one .. Coca cola if I drink and a lot .. but then I only require vi, or emacs to develop .. Greetings
Heh heh, everything will be, unless I say what happens without the internet ... hehe heh heh but it could be that it happens ... the truth who knows ... !!!
well, I've been working with Linux for two years ... of course I like it a lot little by little I'm using the console ... but to learn Linux on the console I had to use slackware ... because Ubuntu is all apt-get install xxxx ...
but hey, greetings to all ... linuxers ...
For my part, if I use a lot of console programs, I navigate with w3m, I chat with centerim, I listen to music in moc, I don't use emacs but I do nano.
fbi ==> view images on console
fbgs ==> see pdf in console
alpine ==> mail manager, better than in browser, even for gmail
centerim ==> msn, gtalk, IRC ... simultaneous on console
rtorrent ==> torrents on console
mplayer ==> music and video on console
links ==> web browser (with option -g, the webs are seen in graphic mode from the console)
dvtm ==> multiple simultaneous console sessions on one screen
aumix ==> sound mixer
wicd-curses ==> scan and connection to wifi, and network
dwarf fortress ==> my favorite ascii game, it can be run in real ascii from the console, by editing the configuration file
cmus ==> Music collection on console (like audacious)
youtube-viewer ==> View and / or download youtube videos on console, (use mplayer)
First of all Vladimir, you are an idol, I will try all of those.
Second ... I can't believe it, at least in terms of the Internet connection we are similar, in the rest not so much, I use the graphical environment a lot, but in the Awesome environment and most of the things I do from the console, I love it, I use Awesome instead of going straight to tty because I can handle multiple windows at once, although emacs can do the same when it comes to, for example, programming and stuff, and it has a ton of functionality. I do not know what they find, some of us like to stay in the console, although sometimes, in my case at least, I find it difficult to do some things, I am not as good as Stallman at those things (and that is to say the least, the difference It must be huge), but seeing this article has made my day.