[plug] Use for low end machines, light GUI browser [was Newby with SUSE 6.2 on a P100/16Meg]

Beau Kuiper kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au
Mon Jul 31 15:34:59 WST 2000


Hi,

hehe, I probably have the fastest video card with x86free and it is stiill
rather slow. (I am talking about my matrox G400) X just isn't fast like windows
is fast :-)

Beau Kuiper
kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au


On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, James Tan wrote:
> It would be nice if there's a windowing system for Linux that performs
> like Windows 3.x but without the GPFs.  It would run so acceptably on
> my old 386 w/8megs RAM, ISA VGA card etc  I could even run something
> lite like Opera.  
> 
> James
> 
> > http://ei5nazha.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/~aito/w3m/eng/
> > 
> > w3m is a  pager, lovely if you don't like waiting for all the
> > pictures but still able to handle frames, forms and tables. It can pass a
> > pic to a local viewer. Very useful and fast (small)
> > 
> > clare
> > --
> > Clare Johnstone, University Communications Services, 
> > The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, 6907
> > Tel +61 8 9380 2607, Fax +61 8 9380 1109, Internet clare at ucs.uwa.edu.au
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Michael Hunt wrote:
> > > >
> > > > May I ask, is there a compact/lite GUI browser [no, not lynx :) ]
> > > > that will
> > > > run
> > > > on lean pcs ?
> > > >
> > > > James
> > 
> >



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