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Tiny Core Base => TCB Q&A Forum => Topic started by: parcdulas on December 09, 2012, 11:04:07 AM

Title: Getting a small browser into TC
Post by: parcdulas 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.

Title: Re: Getting a small browser into TC
Post by: gerald_clark 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.

Title: Re: Getting a small browser into TC
Post by: hiro on December 09, 2012, 11:56:40 AM

works here with 64, but don't open many tabs or big images :P

Title: Re: Getting a small browser into TC
Post by: Pseudoman 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.

Title: Re: Getting a small browser into TC
Post by: tinypoodle 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.

Title: Re: Getting a small browser into TC
Post by: hiro on December 11, 2012, 03:33:48 PM

yeah, Xorg would be too heavy.

Title: Re: Getting a small browser into TC
Post by: tinypoodle 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... :)