[BL] new add-on for BL3
Ron Clarke
ariadne at earthlink.com.au
Wed Sep 1 00:24:17 EDT 2004
Hi Steven,
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 17:45:12 +1200
3aoo-cvfd at dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> For some time, I have been trying to find a suitable
> graphical browser for BL3. I spent a lot of time
> trying to get Netscape 3.04 to work, but it just
> wouldn't run on Xvesa. I then investigated replacing
> Xvesa with an ancient X server (not much larger than
> Xvesa), but it was missing a capability that Netscape
> needed. So I tried compiling dillo, but it failed
> (probably because of something missing in the GTK I
> installed from Slackware 4.0).
>
> However (finally!) I have found a graphical browser
> that works, and I have just uploaded it to the BL3
> add-ons.
>
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/baslinux/add-ons/links2.tgz
>
> The package is less than 2mb in size and it runs happily
> on the default BL3 (no other packages are needed). Just
> pkg links2.tgz and it will automatically appear in your
> swm menu (in the Internet submenu).
>
> I would be grateful if some of you would try it and tell
> me whether it is OK.
It installs just fine and is able to run around my hard disks with no problems.
I seldom go onto the net with BL3, but I will give it a go in the next day or two.
Regards,
Ron
--
Ron Clarke
AUSREG Consultancy http://www.valylink.net.au/~ausreg/index.html
Tadpole Tunes http://tadpole.mytunebook.de/
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