Almost usable....

Blew away XP on the throbbing beast, installed W2K and Beos. The astute among you will note an operating system or two missing, but since the Throbbing Beast is almost exclusively a games machine, with the odd bit of CD burning, I haven't thus far needed a Real Operating System. And now that I have Talisman up and running, with the gorgeous FlashDance theme, it's almost usable.

What would be perfect, of course, is a *decent* terminal.

I need, fundamentally, putty, but ... prettier. rxvt -rv, or Eterm --trans --shade 50, basically. An xterm, rather than an ssh client. Which is a distinction without a difference, and I realise that I'm being precious, but somehow putty never feels quite right.

Any suggestions? "Get a windows X server and run rxvt on the remote machine" will not be terribly appreciated, nor will "Cygwin". They're options, but they're sledgehammers. Surely.
VNC ditto - I tried running a VNC session to the server *and* streaming MP3s. No go. I hadn't realised VNC was quite that over the top, but apparently so.

Though I realise that the real answer is "debian", and that I've really not made it clear what I actually want. Ah well.

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