Zip Slack frame buffer browser

DavidPhillips · 09-29-2002, 11:19 AM

I just got bored and downloaded zip slack. It is really great, so I decided to replace Mandrake on my work laptop with it.

Works great!!

Now while I am waiting for X to download over a slow modem has anybody used mozilla or some other x browser on a framebuffer?

acid_kewpie · 09-29-2002, 11:37 AM

only one i'm aware of is zen, which uses the new gumpf in gtk2 to run X apps in a framebuffer.

DavidPhillips · 09-29-2002, 11:55 AM

ok, I will look into that one, I thought I saw something about mozilla or netscape but can't remember where.

links is usable, but I can't hardly wait to get wmaker with mozilla going.

Took one night to download zipslack, got half of x last night, and hope to finish it tonight.

wget rules

If I was only at home I could have got everything in in 15 minutes.

matt3333 · 12-10-2002, 09:11 PM

Hey man i never tried zipslack before and i got a old 386 labtop and im going to put zipslack on there how but im not to good with the command lines im going to probably put x on there but it'll probably really slow eh?? hmm ne suggests??14

DavidPhillips · 12-10-2002, 11:16 PM

if you login into ftp.slackware.com

there are a lot of addons for slack in

ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackwar...-8.1/slackware

wartstew · 12-20-2002, 01:26 AM

Sometimes it actually makes sense to purchase the CD's. It supports the Linux community as well.

Anyway there is a framebuffer browser project called "Arachne" at http://browser.arachne.cz . I've never gotten the Linux version to work, but they have an MSDOS version that works amazingly well considering the limitations of MSDOS, just make sure you run a disk cache!

Of course there are those text mode browsers like "lynx" and "links", but I've never been able to get very far with these. I kind of tolarate them in emergencies only.

DavidPhillips · 12-20-2002, 03:10 AM

I have not been working on that lately but I think that links combined with seejpeg would not be too bad

I'll check out the fb browser when I get back to that project.

thanks