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Re: vancouver revisited



On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 12:00:07AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 01:53:37PM +0200, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote:
> > > Claiming "nobody sane will ever use that" means someone who's actually
> > > interested in using said software, even if it's slow is left out in the
> > > cold. That's silly.
> > 
> > The user can always ask to build it or provide resources to build it.
> 
> Rotfl.
> 
> Imagine:
> 
> You have one m68k machine, and want to use it as a lightweight browsing
> machine (yes, some people do that). To have a browser, however, you'll
> need to let it run for >24 hours because the browser isn't compiled...
> and then you end up with mozilla, but you prefer a lightweight browser,
> such as galeon. Add another bunch of hours.

Galeon is by no means a lightweight browser. If you want a lightweight
browser look at dillo or the GPE mini browser.

Cheers,

Peter (p2).

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