> Ages ago there where some discussions about DOSzilla (Mozilla Firefox > for DOS) but the project was never released and is dead. > Firefox for DOS would be a killer application, pretty cool.
I remember the suggestion coming in from time to time but I also remember the insane dependencies firefox needs... $ apt-cache depends firefox-3.0 | grep Depends Depends: debianutils Depends: fontconfig Depends: libatk1.0-0 Depends: libc6 Depends: libcairo2 Depends: libgcc1 Depends: libglib2.0-0 Depends: libgtk2.0-0 Depends: libnspr4-0d Depends: libpango1.0-0 Depends: libstdc++6 Depends: psmisc Depends: xulrunner-1.9 In short, you need some Unicode compatible GUI with GTK, more or less half of the Gnome GUI... Once you add that, either your Firefox or your DOS will be a few 100 megabytes or similar ;-). Of course including most complexity as well. > Also Arachne as 32 bit could be pretty cool, look at dr webspyoder or > lineo embrowser (arachne forks), them start much faster and feel much > smoother. > > After almost 10 years of Arache being Open Source the "development" > fatally failed, I think you need to be a hardcore optimist to except to > come a 32 bit version ever. I agree that Arachne needs some more life. I mean this is an open source story. We are not only the spectators by definition. New people can gather to take the existing Arachne and build a 32 bit one. >> a word processor like Abiword, FOSS USB >> drivers, ... Maybe we could start a search for a word processor where porting has good chances... I mean not like OpenOffice, more s.th. small with few dependencies. $ apt-cache depends openoffice.org-writer openoffice.org-core | grep Depends | sort | uniq Depends: fontconfig Depends: libc6 Depends: libcairo2 Depends: libcurl3 Depends: libdb4.6 Depends: libexpat1 Depends: libfreetype6 Depends: libgcc1 Depends: libglib2.0-0 Depends: libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 Depends: libgstreamer0.10-0 Depends: libgtk2.0-0 Depends: libhunspell-1.1-0 Depends: libice6 Depends: libicu38 Depends: libjpeg62 Depends: libldap-2.4-2 Depends: libneon27 Depends: libnspr4-0d Depends: libnss3-1d Depends: libpam0g Depends: libpango1.0-0 Depends: libsm6 Depends: libssl0.9.8 Depends: libstdc++6 Depends: libwpd8c2a Depends: libwps-0.1-1 Depends: libx11-6 Depends: libxaw7 Depends: libxext6 Depends: libxinerama1 Depends: libxml2 Depends: libxrender1 Depends: libxslt1.1 Depends: libxt6 Depends: libxtst6 Depends: openoffice.org-base-core Depends: openoffice.org-common Depends: openoffice.org-core Depends: python-uno Depends: ttf-opensymbol Depends: zlib1g $ apt-cache depends abiword | grep Depends | sort | uniq Depends: abiword-common Depends: libart-2.0-2 Depends: libatk1.0-0 Depends: libc6 Depends: libcairo2 Depends: libenchant1c2a Depends: libfontconfig1 Depends: libfreetype6 Depends: libfribidi0 Depends: libgcc1 Depends: libglade2-0 Depends: libglib2.0-0 Depends: libgnomecanvas2-0 Depends: libgnomeprint2.2-0 Depends: libgnomeprintui2.2-0 Depends: libgtk2.0-0 Depends: libice6 Depends: libpango1.0-0 Depends: libperl5.8 Depends: libpng12-0 Depends: libpopt0 Depends: libsm6 Depends: libstdc++6 Depends: libx11-6 Depends: libxft2 Depends: libxml2 Depends: zlib1g ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
