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Re: [LUG] Public Web Browser



On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 09:39:52 +0000, Pete Hatton wrote:
> A P90 may struggle here a little, but the key here is how much memory do you 
> have? (32megs is a good min)

A P90 is *severly* underspecced for Mozilla.

> >   What is a good (low resource) window manager
> Blackbox http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net/

Why run a window manager at all? :)

> >   What is a good (low resource) browser
> >   (that windows users will find familliar)
> Hmm I am still using Netscape 4.5 to 4.7 odd, on a old P120-24megs of memory 
> laptop and it struggles a little, maybe with more memory you could try Mozilla 
> or maybe Opera?

w3m maybe. P90 is *not* good for running as as kiosk.

Netscape 4 is outdated piece of software. Please leave it on the scrap
heap with the P90.

> >   Or even better, is there a relevant distribution/web site
> Pass on that, usually on a low spec box I get my Redhat 6.2 CD out, and trim it 
> right down to the bare knuckles.

Conduct some searchs with Mozilla on Kiosk. Esp. in their bugzilla.


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