On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 06:46:07PM +0200, Atila Nemet wrote:
> AN> Unfortunately I have only an old 486 PC on 120MHz. Is there
> AN> window manager which is low on system resources so I
> AN> could set up X on this 486?
>
> From, the help I've got, it seems that the problem is not with the
> window manager itself (since there are people who are using X with various
> window managers on weaker machines), but with the programs I use.
> I have set up fvwm and it ran quite ok. as long as I was using some
> little applications, but when I started Netscape. It lookd like the
> time had sopped. Would a memory upgrade help in this case?
Yep, that'll do it.
My suggestions:
- w3m or lynx -- console-mode browsers. Also "links", though I don't
care for it as much.
- Both Gnome and KDE have HTML browsers -- the KDE file manager (kwm)
and the Gnome Help Viewer (??). You'll need some of the
corresponding KDE/Gnome support, but you don't need KDE or Gnome per
se.
- Mozilla. I've been using it periodically since September, am now
running M16. It's interesting, but not yet compelling.
- Other graphical browsers -- Freshmeat's got a pageful, though I
haven't tried most:
http://freshmeat.net/appindex/x11/web%20browsers.html
Gzilla (now Armadillo) and Grail look intriguing, though the latter
turns up 404. Anyone got a current URL?
Looking at Gzilla -- it's promising, though still alpha. It renders.
but complex layouts (eg: Slashdot) are funky. If you're looking
for a lightweight browser, this might well be it.
top (compressed whitespace) running NS Nav 4.61 and gzila 0.3.10:
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB%CPU%MEM TIME COMMAND
4631 karsten 0 0 14400 13M 5744 S 0 0.0 14.9 0:17 navigator-sm
5100 karsten 0 0 2724 2724 2088 S 0 0.1 2.8 0:00 gzilla
- Primitive graphical browsers. These tend to be more frustrating than
useful, but the original Mosaic browser, Amaya, and others are
around.
- Early versions of Netscape. NS 3.03 only sucked slightly. And it's
a major trip down memory lane. The low-numbered 4.x series sucked,
but didn't blow. Anything prior to 3.03 was, IIRC, compiled as
aout rather than ELF, and probably won't run on modern Linuxen:
http://www.netscape.com/download/archive/index.html
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