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James Miller wrote:
>
> You'll need a different kernel if you want sound.  
> Probably the bare.i kernel from Slack 7.1 is your 
> best bet. 

Since he is using a 486 with 8mb RAM, I think he is
better off using BL1.  The standard BL1 kernel has 
sound support built in.

> I don't really care much for my computers making 
> noise at me 

Same here.

> - as long as I can get the system bell 

echo -e '\a'

Cheers,
Steven







it suffices for nearly all my sound needs.  I
> think Steven can help more with this sound question.
> 
> > Finally....I'd like to say X Windows installed fine and I got a 256
> > colour video driver to work with it too :) ; icewm works fine! But there
> > are a few other programs I'd like to install but can't work out how. I'd
> > like to put on a small web browser, mp3 player and some sort of simple
> > text editor or WP and a "file manager" type program.
> >
> There's almost no such thing as a "small web browser" in this day and age.
> Dillo is tiny and works great for alot of things, but has its limitations:
> doesn't do SSL or java, for example.  It renders a bit wierdly at times
> too.  The most recent version of Dillo is available at my add-ons site
> ( cmiller.sdf-us.org/baslin ), along with a GTK package it depends on, if
> you'd like to try it.  The other "small browsers" have a little better
> functionality (e.g., Links2, BrowseX) but are quite alot larger - about
> 5MB download.  And they don't do everything the way they are supposed to
> (e.g., SSL) or are in some other way deficient.  You'll never find
> anything like MSIE (or Mozilla, Netscape etc) in these "small browsers."
> People have reported pretty good success with Opera 6.03 - which does come
> fairly close to IE capabilities.  It's probably the largest of the "small
> broswers" too.
> 
> > than Netscape. For text editiing, I'd like to use Ted (
> > http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted/index.html ) - it is quite a large program but
> > it seems that its requirements might not be too high given its user
> > interface. I'm not sure about an mp3 player yet, I'm guessing xmms would
> 
> I've used Ted fairly successfully on a 486 DX2 66 with 20MB ram.  Not the
> most productive hardware you could use it on, but it did run.  This would
> have been 6 months ago or so: not sure how much the program has "grown"
> since I tried it.  But I think it could be serviceable for you.  The other
> choice is the special Abiword that Steven compiled (also on my download
> site).  I guess it would be fairly comparable to Ted in terms of system
> resource useage.  There are much more lightweight editors, as I suppose
> you know.  BL has Nano - a really tiny program.  It won't do advanced word
> processing stuff, but should suffice for other things.
> 
> > run but it'd be too resource intensive. For a file manager I'd like to
> > use xwc (x windows commander) I think its homepage is here (
> > http://xwc.sourceforge.net/ ) the RPM can be found all over the net (
> > http://www.hklpg.org/RPM/conectiva/8/i386/RPMS.main/xwc-0.91.4-1cl.i386.html
> > ) .
> 
> I like MC.  It suffices for all my needs.  The developer for Drinou has
> compiled a special package for BL that under .5MB.
> 
> > The problem is that all these different programs although simple all
> > need different libraries, I tried to copy the files from my mandrake 9.1
> > install into basiclinux noting down where they came from (/lib) or
> > (/usr/lib) noting down the names of the libraries that were needed but
> > it didn't work :( .
> >
> I wouldn't expect that to work.  I encourage you to use console apps as
> much as possible.  With virtual terminals, you really can multitask
> without a gui.  Its alot less demanding on system resources and makes, I
> think, older hardware alot more productive.
> 
> James
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