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[Day Brown <daybrown AT hypertech.net>]

Ron Clarke 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 !
Sure looks good. If I can locate a PPP driver that works with MS-CHAP,
I'll havta try it.
http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~clock/twibright/links/