Now that BL2 is mostly finished, I can answer some of these messages that have been piling up. Sorry about the delay.
------------------- james miller wrote: ------------------- > > Using BL2 alpha on my 486 DX2 66 with 20 MB RAM. Works like > a charm so far. Big performance improvement So far so good. I'll be interested to see how she goes with X and some applications. I managed to get the HD version working today and used pkgtool to install and delete five packages from Slackware 7.1 -- everything worked as expected. The basic HD install comes in at just under 10mb. That includes a whole bunch of new stuff. The only significant thing missing is man pages. I used pkgtool to add them (with groff, less and an additional library) and that added 8mb. > copied the naim binary over to the /tmp dir. Runs great! That's great. We have our first add-on. > After reading this, I gave Antiword a try. This is a great > utility. This is probably the best of all utilities for BL2, > at least for viewing and converting M$Word docs. OK, that looks like a starter too. > I think Ted still leads the pack with its simple interface > and fairly advanced formatting features. I'll have a closer look at the Ted versus AbiWord issue after I get X running on BL2. Is there a binary .tgz package for Ted? There is for AbiWord. I doubt that I will have space to provide a BL2 binary of Ted. > I haven't made any further advances in terms of finding a > suitable graphical browser for BL2. Not a problem. I'll probably be trying Opera first. > In former days, I used a browser under Win called "Kmeleon", > which is based on Mozilla but is a stripped-down version. Its > download was around 4MB. It's a nice browser, superior to > Mozilla and without all the bulk (no mail client, no composer). > Is there no counterpart to Kmeleon in the Linux world? Sounds a bit like Galeon, which is a stripped-down version of Mozilla. I tried Galeon a few weeks ago and rejected it. It's somewhat faster than Mozilla, but not enough to make up for its shortcomings. I think the Konq family is more promising -- it is significantly smaller and faster than the Mozilla family. Cheers, Steven To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
