On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Tim Thomson wrote: > Has anyone heard of a Web browser that uses the svgalibs (or some other > method), rather than X-Win? I have a 100meg hard drive, and have about > 10meg free, so I don't really want to install X-win, plus I only have a > 386SX, so X-win is rather slow.
Such a beast would be great. Alas, I don't think one exists. Perhaps if Mnemonic ever gets into beta, we'll see one. There is one for DOS called Arachne (Caldera sells it as WebSpyder32). Unfortunately, no source code -- though I've heard of Linux users running it somewhere (maybe they got it to work under DOSEMU, but that doesn't solve your problem either). While I am a GNU/Linux and free software advocate, and enjoy turning very low-end hardware into useable free software systems, I've been thinking lately that it's more practical to run Caldera's OpenDOS/WebSpyder32 on a machine like yours than run Linux, especially if using the Web is a priority. I don't even know if you _could_ install X on that system -- it would just be impossible to use. Good luck, m Michael Stutz . http://dsl.org/m/ . copyright disclaimer etc stutz@dsl.org : finger for pgp : http://dsl.org/copyleft/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
