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Offline parcdulas

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Getting a small browser into TC
« on: December 09, 2012, 11:04:07 AM »
I have installed CORE Plus to the 5Gb hard disk of a Toshiba 4200 Satellite Pro that only has 64 Mb of Ram. Firefox is out of the question in this little RAM and Opera is very slow. I was wondering about DILLO as this seems the smallest around. The download from their site is Dillo - 3.0.2.tar.bz2 which is now on the hard disk. How do I go about getting it operational in Tiny Core.
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Offline gerald_clark

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Re: Getting a small browser into TC
« Reply #1 on: December 09, 2012, 11:24:49 AM »
Dillo is available in the repo.  Install using Apps.
I think you will find having only 64M will be a problem.
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Offline hiro

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Re: Getting a small browser into TC
« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2012, 11:56:40 AM »
works here with 64, but don't open many tabs or big images :P
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Re: Getting a small browser into TC
« Reply #3 on: December 09, 2012, 02:34:01 PM »
Do you need graphics? If not, look at elinks or lynx, both of which are in the repo.
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Offline tinypoodle

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Re: Getting a small browser into TC
« Reply #4 on: December 11, 2012, 05:33:25 AM »
Without disagreeing on any of the above mentioned, with 64MB I'd suggest trying links in framebuffer graphics mode, thereby saving substantial memory which would be spent just to run X.
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Offline hiro

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Re: Getting a small browser into TC
« Reply #5 on: December 11, 2012, 03:33:48 PM »
yeah, Xorg would be too heavy.
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Offline tinypoodle

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Re: Getting a small browser into TC
« Reply #6 on: December 12, 2012, 04:21:20 AM »
Looking at the specs of this model, it takes max. memory 320MB.
Any mem you could add to the 64MB would make a substantial difference for web browsing.

P.S: Seems to have an interesting pointer device... :)
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