From: Stephen Kasirye (kassets@techmuk.ac.ug)
Date: Thu Jun 14 2001 - 09:11:49 CEST
Great news indeed! Thanks Michele.
From the day of chimera, I scouted around for a graphical browser and
landed on Netfront which I failed to use - unfortunately.
The latest project of mine was on dillo, which is supposed to be a better
and more portable browser as compare to Netscape - but could be relying on
GTK! :-(
Unfortunately my internet link is down. Will check on these two new disks
next month.
BTW what way the last of the muTELL? What the pinnacle of poplog in that
venture, if it did change the progress at all? **Stephen Isard, any idea?
Stephen
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Michele Andreoli nicely wrote:
> Hello,
>
> a new, important enhancement for muLinux is in final stage.
> Two new add-on diskettes, called NS1 and NS2. The two disk contains
> the SVGA X server for muLinux and the popular browser Netscape
> (version 3.x, the best, in my hymble opinion).
>
> The netscape binary is very big (about 4.2 Mega) to enter in a muLinux
> ramdisk. So, I compressed it using UPX and splitted it (usind dd) in
> two parts, located in NS1 and NS2.
>
> The wrapper script "netscape" is able to rebuild on the fly the
> final binary, but it still refuse to starts, when muLinux runs in RAM.
> This is because UPX requires much space in /tmp in order to
> decompress, but I'm not sure.
>
> So, also loading NS1 and NS2, it is better to clone muLinux in hard-disk
> in order to get Netscape running. Sorry.
>
> Despite of this problem, I applied anycase the add-on concept, because
> this facilitate trasportation via floppy-disk and installation
> via DOSTOOLS.zip (tarball was more, more easy to do!).
>
> Netscape 3 is a very good thing for muLinux, because it contains a
> mailer, a news-reader and a file-browser.
> Installing BASE+X11*NS1+NS2 (4 floppy-disk) in an old computer will give
> the chance to transport over Internet everyone, with a minimal system
> but with a fast-learning-curve (mouse based).
>
> I feel that as a tribute to this good browser, because recently
> someone rumored me via email about a definitive shutting-down of this
> project from America-On-Line, or I'm wrong?
>
> NS1 and NS2 will appairs in muLinux 12r0 and I will upload this evening,
> italian time.
>
> Michele
>
> --
> I keep trying to locate a meeting of Quantum Physicists. But everytime
> they set a meeting time, the location changes. And vice versa -- Anonymous
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