I woke up this morning to "Linux Home Page"
http://linuxhomepage.com/
where I fell upon this OSNews piece,
"Building Your Own (Minimal) Operating System";
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=2691
which led to "Building The Lo-Fat Linux Desktop"
http://users.netwit.net.au/~pursang/lofat.html
then of course, a link to the inevitable;
"Linux For Old PCs - has some great stuff for older computers, eg. 486s"
http://www.volny.cz/basiclinux/browser.html
and also to:
http://browsex.com/
...
BrowseX is a lightweight, but powerful alternative Web Browser written by
Peter MacDonald. It is based upon a modified
Tkhtml widget to provide fast HTML rendering.
The remainder of the browser is implemented in
Tcl.
BrowseX starts out with most of the mainstream features of Netscape,
but without the fat. Then numerous nits or features Netscape
should have, have been added.
Here's the highlights:
Highlights
o lightweight: starting at 3.8 Meg and works on a 12M/386 (in X!)
o Packaged as a single standalone binary, that you can modify!
o improved configurability, and tighter OS integration
o better fault resilience and crash proofing
o reliable client side scripting via Safe-Tcl
o an embedded macro processor: TML. Standalone to!
o less-mouse, and mouse-less operational support
o configuration defaults adapt to available resources
...
Features
An Open Source Artistic License
Dynamic DNS support, and free access to the browsex.com domain
Web Server supports remote access, even to read mail or run commands
Talk lets you communicate directly and iteractively with others
ZipView: view a zip archive of html content. (ala PDF)
A password manager
Animated Gif support
A Macro Language: TML
Mostly finished printing support
The 72 Tcl language encodings
Many configuration/control options
Can view a zip archive of html content: html, gifs. (ala PDF)
Netscape bookmarks import (in File/Util menu).
Passman: a password manager for logins.
A simple editor with Undo, and Encryption support
Encryption options include either DES, or XOR (aperiodic).
The NGS Javascript compiler is now included with BrowseX
...
...and mail (see headers) and so on...
Check it out.
Long live the survpc!
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