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[Rob <robo13@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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I have the latest Slackware10.1 on a p166 with
40Megs EDO RAM, along with NetBSD2.0 on a second
harddrive. Both run fine.
As for Links, you can have two windows open on the
console, but you have to close the second to go back
to the first. You can also got to

Setup->javascript options

to get rid of the
  +------------------------- Go to URL -----------------------+
  |                                                           |
  |   Javascript is attempting to open a new window with URL  |
  |   "http://twoloonscoffee.com/who.html";.                   |
  |                                                           |
  |         [ Allow ]    [ Reject ]   [ Kill script ]         |
  +-----------------------------------------------------------+
box coming up.

Rob:

>>
>> Have you tried Slackware? Patrick Volkerding compiles everything for
>> i486, so it should work.
>
>  I tried Slack about 6 years ago on a P-166.
> Didn't try it on this machine though.
>
>  I've been meaning to learn BSD "someday" anyway, so the
> fact that this machine runs it turned today into that
> someday.
>  I had FreeBSD 4.3(?) on a 486VLB-66 w/24MB RAM and it ran
> fine, but X was *really* slow.  Other than that, I liked
> what I saw.  Said that if I ever had a faster "spare"
> machine around, I'd like to learn BSD.  Well, I guess my
> "spare" machine is, for now, my main machine.
>  Nothing like total immersion to learn a new language, or
> OS for that matter.
>
>> Actually Arachne has some powerful competition on Linux. Dillo and the
>> graphical Links are from the same category.
>
>  I've been playing with Dillo since... I don't know when,
> but I'm sure it's in the archives here (or on the original
> arachne list) somewhere.
>
>> Linux does understand a limited JavaScript subset.
>
>  I think you meant Links...  I use the text version
> sometimes, and it follows javascript links so:
>
> +------------------------- Go to URL -----------------------+
> |                                                           |
> |   Javascript is attempting to open a new window with URL  |
> |   "http://twoloonscoffee.com/who.html";.                   |
> |                                                           |
> |         [ Allow ]    [ Reject ]   [ Kill script ]         |
> +-----------------------------------------------------------+
>
>  If you're in X, it actually does open up a new xterm with
> the link... obviously, it can't do that in a console.
>  I haven't tried graphical Links.  Someday.
>
>
>> Dillo is very small. There are no such
>> browsers in windows world.
>
>  True.
>
>

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