[arachne] Re: any "official" website? [was: Bye]

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Hi Pablo,

Arachne has been free for individual, non-commercial use for a very long
time--maybe ten years.

Arachne 2 was never anything more than some ideas Michael Polak had
for an entirely new version of Arachne. He never got past maybe sharing
his ideas for this "new version". It's quite dead.

There is ongoing development work being done on at least two GPL
versions. Joe and Ray each have versions they are working on.

No one knowledgable and competent has stepped forward to make a
"comprehensive" web page. Feel free to give it a go yourself. You'd
have to ask the various authors if you could use stuff from their
web pages. Glenn's is the de facto "official" site and the source for
new versions as they come out.

There has never been a Linux version beyond the rudimentary and
long abandoned 1.66. Someone on this list mentioned the other
day that someone is working on a new Linux version that might yet
see the light of day.

Hope this helps explain things a little.

Sam Ewalt


Pablo Hoertner said:
> hi @ all!
>
> i have had a look at arachne many years ago - as it still was
> proprietary - and liked it a lot (despite the fact, of course, that
> it wasn't really free). now, as it's gpl, i'm using it on some old
> machines and am very happy with it. now some questions... ;)
>
> i've just been lurking on the list until today, so don't wonder if
> you don't know me. :)
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 06:10:47PM +0100, Mel Evans wrote:
> [...]
>> To use radio parlance - - going QRT. I'm not continuing with Arachne
>> as a project and will pull the plug on the website soon also.
> that's a pitty, as this site seems to be the most complete arachne
> ressource on the web, containing links, a history, installing
> instructions and even an FAQ.
>
> apart from the sometimes annoying MIDIs, which i don't like that
> much (sorry *smile*), this website is really a great ressource for
> people who do net yet know arachne (that well).
>
>> Feel free to "steal" anything from the wbesite you wish.
> actually, which is the "official" arachne website? is there any? i
> feel that glen mccorckle's site[0] is more for experts and advanced
> users than for newbies, at least there is no explanation at all of
> what arachne is and why you might find it usefull.
>
> apart from that, there are some dead links (intern & extern), e.g.:
> http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/downloads/ar173gpl.txt -> Error 404
>
> are there any plans to gather stuff from all the different
> ressources together at one single place? i'd be willing to do so,
> but where should that information go?
>
> the freshmeat project site[1] still points to the arachne labs
> website[2], but michael polak is not updating this site any more. he
> writes:
>
> "I am planning to convert browser.arachne.cz into "museum"
> section of my new website."[3]
>
> thus, i guess that this link at freshmeat should be changed. who has
> access to this arachne project site to do so?
>
> there is a site by roberto perotti[4] and another by jds[5] (?) with
> further usefull information. are they on this list? would it be okay
> to use the content of these sites? what about the historical content
> at arachne labs?[6]
>
>
>> -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --
> are there any plans to integrate arachne into the freedos project as
> its default browser? has this ever been discussed? what is the
> present status of the arachne project? (last version 1.90;J1 dates
> from last year.) is development on the 32-bit version going on?
>
> i'd also like to use arachne for gnu/linux, but i read that there
> are no developers. has this situation changed? (unfortunatly, i
> cannot help out here either, as i'm not a programmer.)
>
> has there been an arachne version for gnu/linux after the 1.66 beta
> by arachne labs?
>
> finally, what about "arachne II"[7]? is this work in progress?
>
> TIA 4 yr answers!
>
> best regards,
> /pablo
>
>
> ps: ahm, sorry for putting together so many questions in one mail -
> under one single subject.
>
>
> [0]http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/arachne/
> [1]http://freshmeat.net/projects/arachnebrowser/
> [2]http://browser.arachne.cz/
> [3]http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/ara-gpl/ar_gpl-6.txt
> [4]http://www.fracassi.net/iw2evk/welcome.htm
> [5]http://www.geocities.com/j_ds_au/arachne/
> [6]http://home.arachne.cz/
> [7]http://www.arachne.cz/index.php?page=soft&PHPSESSID=af2c18d54633eb303824cde15f2a4f3c
>
> --
> Pablo Hoertner
> http://redtux.org/
>

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