The guy who writes this blog has had a few posts on living without X recently, not sure which distro that was with.Helps if I include the link doesnt it, here it is<http://kmandla.wordpress.com/>
Nice recomended applications. I think the main problem, however, is that I still depend on X to get a nice terminal. I can't find a way to type unicode, or a console font that covers a good amount of unicode. Thanks, Maurício