on Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 10:03:21PM -0400, christenpet (christenpet@snip.net) wrote:
> Thanks to everyone who helped out with this. I tried "vmstat 5" and
> found that in the last 8 lines it reported as Mozilla was starting
> the SIs and SOs ranged from 100 to 300. So I definitely need to get
> more memory for my machine!
>
> One other thing: If I wanted to try Galeon how would I install it?
> Download it from the Galeon website, then what would I do next???
I'd move to Debian testing (Woody) and install it from there.
Under your configuration, it's not going to be much of a benefit,
however. My current Galeon process is claiming 115MB (on a 512 MB
system). For your system, an older Netscape (3.0x) is likely to be a
better fit. While memory is cheap, *old* memory is not, and you're
likely to spend quite a bit to get your system up to snuff. You might
be able to sniff something out at a used computer shop, but old SIMMs
have a habit of being dodgy, so be ready to make some return trips or
buy tested SIMMs.
If you want to stick with a small footprint, I'd pick:
- lynx, w3m, or links, all text-mode browsers.
- dillo (incomplete, but small and fast)
- BrowseX http://www.browsex.com/: lightweight, Tcl, ssl-enabled
browser. Used on the LNX-BBC.
Or poke around the Freshmeat Browsers category:
http://freshmeat.net/browse/91/
Peace.
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