On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Iain Hibbert wrote: > I see much Linux discussion here, not much > about Arachne, though I take it that Arachne development is stopped for > a while?
The last news we heard from Michael on the development of Arachne was about a cross-platform layer called "flowerpot" which would allow Arachne code to run on more than just DOS, and marginally on Linux. In the Linux README, you'll discover that Linux Arachne has only cca 55% of the functionality of the DOS version. > I have a 486DX2/50 laptop here, 12Mb RAM and I think Win 3.11 which I > dont use, I have tried most of the DOS internet programs about I think, > Arachne is the best although it has some shortcomings that I do not > like, and since I hate DOS I guess I will think about some unix - I > was wondering about Linux (especially since Arachne runs on Linux, I > would like a web browser after all) Netscape 3.04 should also run fine on such a machine. > though in my heart I am with BSD. Then again, you might well be able to run Netscape 3.x on FreeBSD on such a machine. > perl is > probably more suited to creating useful scripts than bash for example, > though you might have to install it. Perl comes preinstalled on all "full" distributions. Python is another very powerful language which comes preinstalled on most distributions. - Steve
