Don Hartline (dghii@xlite.es.xerox.com)
Tue, 25 May 1999 16:35:09 -0700
I can confirm that the KDE file browser does double as a web browser; not all
that great, but it does display most pages correctly.
Evan Read wrote:
> On Tue, 25 May 1999, Michael Messano wrote:
>
> What about Mozilla? There must be a Linux PPC binary available.
>
> It is pre-alpha but pretty satisfactory.
>
> If you are using KDE, I hear the file browser doubles as a nice Web
> browser (I have never tried that myself, though).
>
> I thought Netscape was working with YellowDogLinux.
>
> > At 3:08 PM -0700 5/25/99, Ron Thompson wrote:
> > >Well, thanks to everyone that got my X working like a charm! Got it up
> > >to 1024x768 at 24 bpp (any higher and the kernel gives me errors and
> > >dies).
> > >Now... I was wondering if there is ANY web browser out there that is
> > >usable on the YD Linux.
> > >And I was wondering if anyone has advice on binaries and such. I have
> > >run a few UN*X flavors on a PC, but the binaries were easy to find, and
> > >even when I had to compile them myself it was generally segfault free or
> > >error free.
> > >Is there a contrib directory somewhere of compatible sources or RPMs for
> > >YellowDog?
> > >Are there general compile-time things I should look for?
> > >
> > >Thanks again! It already looks really slick and I've been showing it
> > >off the my fellow Apple employees... 8-)
> > > -Ron
> >
> > I can't remember who posted it originally, but there is a browser
> > by the name of Gzilla which can be found at http://www.gzilla.com. Bear in
> > mind, however, that it is somewhere in alpha stage. It compiled and runs
> > quite well for me, although most of the whiz-bang stuff isn't there yet.
> > Probably the most disturbing part is that it doesn't format HTML terribly
> > well. Pictures, side-panels, etc all end up cascading one after the other
> > down the page. Looks funny. Anyway, check it out.
> >
> > Michael
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> > But what if he neglect the care of it?
> > Well what if he neglect the care of his health or his estate, which
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> > Will the magistrate make a law that he not be poor or sick?
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