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David Moberg wrote:
>
> Your laptop might not support enough colors with X to run links2 or
> abiword. 

I think it does 256 colors (8 bit).  Unfortunately, Xvesa won't 
do 8 bit.  However, the SVGA Xserver (from Slackware 4.0) does.

> However, you can still use links2 with svgalib, (small non-X
> graphical environment) which might work faster and better on 
> your laptop.

Unfortunately, the BL3 links2 does not do svgalib.

> Are there any word processors for svgalib, or for low-color X?

There are non-X text editors that will work.

> If you are using the BL3 loop version, you will want to resize 
> the loop as it only provides 15-20MB for add-ons.

It would be better to use the loop version to create an ext2
partition and install BL3 to it.

Cheers,
Steven

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