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On Mon, 31 May 2010, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Please calm down Sindi.  I just asked a simple question.  I had no idea 
> Midori required so much work to get it running in BL.  As far as I have 
> seen Midori is no better than Opera or Seamonkey.  Its much better than 
> Netsurf which Slitaz had in its previous release.

I am not upset.  I would also like to use other browsers with BL (which is 
the main reason for investigating xhost at sdf and cjb).  But BL is 
missing a LOT of the dependencies, and to use precompiled ones would 
require probably later glibc, which would require a 2.6 kernel, and I have 
not managed to compile one that works.  One from Slackware 11 appears to 
work, but Slackware does not seem to provide modules, just config files 
for them.  Can you make BL work with a 2.6 kernel and modules?

I like Netsurf because it displays all the text while downloading the 
images.  Opera seems to wait until all the images are downloaded (even 
when told not to display the images) before it will display even the text.
Netsurf does not work at javascript sites.

Puppy has packages for a lot of other browsers (not linked to the package 
manager in the standard download but at another less official site).  If I 
knew how to get the puppy 2.6 kernel and .ko modules to work in BL I could 
upgrade glibc and use the Puppy dependencies with those browsers.

You can boot into puppy and run many programs from BL (Opera, Seamonkey, 
and Firefox if you run them from the directory they unpack into).  But not 
vice versa because of glibc.

DSL appears to be abandoned.  The Firefox 2 from there works in BL with a 
few libraries added.  GTK1.  Most browsers now require GTK2.  Opera 10 is 
hopeless with BL but the latest (11?) may not require libQt.  (Probably 
something worse).

Is it possible to use older style .o modules with a 2.6 kernel?

Steven, do you plan on a BL with 2.6 kernel at some point?
Three floppy disks?
Sindi

> -------------- Original message from baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org: 
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>
> What does Midori do better than Seamonkey or Opera, for which we already have
> > the dependencies (at least if you upgrade to Slackware 11 or Slackware 8.1 
> > libraries, and add
> > libgtk1 for Seamonkey and libstdc++ and a few X libraries)? If you manage to 
> > install the
> > Slitaz package in BL then check for dependencies you will find a lot missing, 
> > maybe everything
> > on your list. BL does not even use Xorg, to start with. Do you know how to 
> > compile Slitaz to
> > include all
> > the dependencies (static) and for a not-so-recent glibc (dynamic)? Sindi