Who needs an X server anyway?

Worst case scenario: your X server keeps crashing, no other computer available and you need to do some emergency googling, backup, downloading, system analysis etc.
Here is a collection of console system analysis tools:

• First, a beauty of a fossil: the lynx browser, available from the main SuSE repository. Link navigation with arrow keys, the "g" key is useful for URL typing. Google search is a bit cumbersome, but feasible. Flash and Javascript sites (e.g. the ATI driver download site) are more or less unusable.


• wget download utility: wget <file URL>


• YaST has a comfortable command-line interface, simply type yast


• burn backups: wodim, see the examples right at the end of man wodim


• some decent vi manual


• Start Samba filesharing server with smbd -D; start ssh server with sshd


• Unison and rsync work from console, too.


• Check free disk space: df -h
  

Less spectacular: You want to work on a remote machine via ssh and a VNC connection works too slow for you.

• Midnight Commander (mc) is a classic console file manager with ftp capabilities.


• The fish:// protocol allows you remote ssh access in Konqueror - e.g. fish://avocadohead@myserver.com/home/avocadohead/