Re: [ILUG] Linux on a 486 laptop without CD- drive ?

From: Justin Mason (jm at domain jmason.org)
Date: Wed 05 Jul 2000 - 13:15:54 IST


kevin lyda said:
> On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 12:33:10PM +0100, David Nicholls wrote:
> > Has anyone tried Opera on Linux yet ?
>
> not stable afaik.

Yep, that was my impression a few weeks ago when I tried the most recent
beta.

> yes, it's possible with ggi or svgalib *BUT* then you're making a browser
> that is linux only (or even linux/x86 only).

Yep. Agreed.

> as far as the overhead of x - what you really mean is the overhead of
> xfree86. there are leaner x servers out there. that's why i suggested
> looking at xfree86 alternatives.

BTW check the handhelds.org lists, the current XF86 CVS code supports an
ultra-lean server running at about 600k I hear. May take some coding to
get it working tho'.

--j.



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