Editor Wars: A New Hope ...

[A. Khattri]

On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Ken Moffat wrote:

> On Debian:
> apt-get install fte
> which also installs fte-xwindow

Or avoid the X dependency entirely, Gentoo-style:

USE="-X -gpm" emerge fte



-- 
screaming tty n.

 [Unix] A terminal line which spews an infinite
   number of random characters at the operating system.  This can
   happen if the terminal is either disconnected or connected to a
   powered-off terminal but still enabled for login; misconfiguration,
   misimplementation, or simple bad luck can start such a terminal
   screaming.  A screaming tty or two can seriously degrade the
   performance of a vanilla Unix system; the arriving "characters"
   are treated as userid/password pairs and tested as such.  The Unix
   password encryption algorithm is designed to be computationally
   intensive in order to foil brute-force crack attacks, so although
   none of the logins succeeds; the overhead of rejecting them all can
   be substantial.