>Arachne is almost perfect for it. I am experimentig with a 486 66MHz, 16MB
>ram (disk is only for booting, I plan to remove it in the future).
Wonderful!!
>For the moment I'm using dos, planning to switch to linux if performances
>are comparable.
There is no Linux-Arachne as yet. Linux+DOSEMU might be a possibility...
Others on this list will know something of how well that works. Or you
coould use Lineo/DR-DOS.
>problems: Any suggestions to the design of html pages (with forms) so to
>speed up loading? Arachne seems to freeze for several seconds while
>loading even simple pages
Turn off virtual screens, get all the memory you can below 640k and use a
disk cache. Arachne help has some detailed information about customizing
for speed. The disk cache is one more reason to use DR-DOS
>is it possible to customize the behavior of the suite (maybe in the
>commercial version?) I need to eliminate most of things that can
>allow people to destroy the kiosk !!!
I've seen mentions of customizing the buttens in the commercial versions.
Charles
