> > junior-internet-tools > > Depends: mozilla > Hmmm, seems really hard to me to suggest a reasonable browser. I > would use mozilla for my own, but I suspect many people will suggest > other browsers. >
Mozilla can't run on my box. I have 32MB of ram, and it is very painful. I would have the browser use konqueror (I was forced to install almost all of KDE just for 3 or 4 programs..so I could try them out). I know you probably don't want to rely on non-free apps (like ns 4.x), so maybe even relying on emacs-w3 would be nice (everyone uses emacs, right?). In fact, why not just rely on gnu emacs (or xemacs). It has games (tetris, minesweeper, snakes), it can play music (the timidity elisp bindings), has a diary (I was scared too), and helps to teach kids how to develop. (the unknown_lamer wasn't be serious in the last sentence...although emacs does do all of those). I do see a problem with konqueror if you want to be distro independent (it needs kde), but it only needs kdebase, kdebase-crypto (if you want SSL), and some other basic libs, not all of KDE. On the programming task side, I think code crusader (and code medic if you want to teach debugging skills) would be good to rely on. But I think that got moved to non-free (because stupid newplanet software hired the code crusader author full time, and I think that jxlib (the framework that cc uses) is under a non-DFSG free license). For a free language, ruby is pretty nice (and the ruby book is also packaged), so that might be worth consideration. ------------------------------- #indrema @ irc.openprojects.net lamer.hackedtobits.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: MentalCKE ICQ: 41087914
