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["Ron Clarke" <ariadne AT acepia.net.au>]

Hi Day,

On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 03:29:24 -0800, Day Brown wrote:

> If anyone came out with a rescue system that not only booted from the FD
> or CD, but also automatically mounted all the drives it could find
> (win/dos users dont havta 'mount' drives), and then got online with a
> gui browser, many would never bother with trying to install windoz
> again. All they want from the computer is surfing and email. But it'd
> havta run mozilla or opera or some other gui browser that was similar
> enough to win IE that they could get by without having to deal with the
> notorious steep Linux learning curve.

   I use Links, a static version, from the CLI (and under X), graphic
and in colour.  Have you tried this yet ?

> To some extent, I think this a clue to the linux heritage as a network
> OS; the sysads did not need nice monitors to manage a network; even an
> ancient mono would do. And outside of frying the monitor, which I have
> never yet succeeded in doing, nothing I could do to a gui mode of dos
> messed up the text mode. Given the speed of today's hardware, I dont see
> ARACHNE load, along with it's graphic driver, nearly as slow as Netscape
> does with xwin already installed. I dont see any reason why a gui
> browser couldnt be designed to run right from the bash prompt just like
> arachne does, other than the problems programmers face setting it up.

   Links does that !

Regards,
         Ron




Ron Clarke
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