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Day Brown wrote:
> 
> I have several 486 (many with VLB) boards, 
> I'm hoping to assemble something that can surf with Mozilla. 

With 486s your best chance of getting reasonable
performance from Mozilla is:
(1) use the Phoenix (Firebird) version
(2) run it on one 486 and display it on another

> Arachne dont cut it anymore, too much JAVA & flash crap 
> results in errors & crashes.  

You might want to try links-g.  It copes better with
javascript than Arachne (unless Arachne has been improved
since the last time I used it).  BrowseX is also worth a
try -- it reminds me of Arachne (but it does javascript).

> But if then BASICLINUX can fire up a GUI browser, that's 
> all I need. 

There are plenty of open-source graphical browsers to
choose from.  The most likely to perform on a 486 are
links-g, dillo, BrowseX.  My personal preference for a
486 is Netscape 3.04 (which runs on BasicLinux 1.8).

Cheers,
Steven