[arachne] Re: Working (OT storms brewing)
- From: Steve <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 16:14:38 -0400 (EDT)
Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
On Sun, 5 Jun 2005 cml55uk@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Yay from me. I enjoy the banter and it gives the impression of alive
> and well. In the past I've tended to unsubscribe from lists that
> went very quiet.
I tend to unsubscribe from lists that get too busy,
particularly when the SNR gets too low.
> -- Arachne, The Web Browser/Suite for DOS and Linux --
Should this be changed to drop the "and Linux?" Last I
checked, the Linux side has been completely abandoned. I
still have my RH 6.2 PINE set up to launch Arachne 1.66 when
I hit <Enter> on a highlighted link, but as time goes by, it
becomes less and less successful at interpreting present day
HTML.
At this moment, my keyboard is conneted to a machine
running FreeBSD on a CyrixIII-750 (eBay barebones purchase
a couple years ago for $38). Most Linux kernels 2.4 and up
won't even boot on this processor... though it runs Linux
2.2.x and FreeBSD just fine.
We've just moved (for the old-timers here, I'll add
"AGAIN!" -- 12th time since registering Arachne), (1) so I
still have the 1.5Ghz AMD machine running Red Hat 6.2
sitting at the old house 250 miles away on a cable modem
while I sit here on much slower aDSL.
So, while my keyboard is connected to a machine running
the latest FreeBSD 5.4 RELEASE (becoming fully up to date
via CVSup and portupgrade as I type), I'm really composing
this on Linux PINE via ssh 250 miles from where I'm typing
it.
I sent cash in an envelope to Michael in July of '97 to
register Arachne, and started migrating to Linux in November
of that same year, though it would be two more years before
I stopped dual-booting... and the main reason I even stuck
with DOS that long was because of Arachne -- and maybe the
occasional use of GeoDraw, vector graphics program... took
me a while to get used to xfig. (2)
Anyway to finally get back around to the topic at hand, is
there any Arachne newer than 1.66 running on any 'nix out
there?
(1) http://twovoyagers.com/metamorphosis/artist/artistos.html
(2) http://www.xfig.org/userman/
--
Steve Ackman
http://twoloonscoffee.com (Need beans?)
http://twovoyagers.com (glass, linux & other stuff)
Arachne at FreeLists
-- Arachne, The Web Browser/Suite for DOS and Linux --
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