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Tiny Core Extensions => TCE Talk => Extension requests => Topic started by: urbalazs on November 18, 2013, 03:02:23 PM

Title: chimera2 for TC 5.x
Post by: urbalazs on November 18, 2013, 03:02:23 PM: Hi!

Please make a chimera2 web browser package for Tiny Core 5.x!
I'am building a low power consumption (12 Watt) PC from a thin client, which has only 16MB storage. I installed Tiny Core 5.0.2 and some packages. It works perfectly, but i have only 800k free space on the device. Only chimera2 can fit this space. Everything done, only a web browser missing...
Title: Re: chimera2 for TC 5.x
Post by: tinypoodle on November 18, 2013, 07:15:16 PM: Quote from: urbalazs on November 18, 2013, 03:02:23 PM
It works perfectly, but i have only 800k free space on the device. Only chimera2 can fit this space.

Wrong, elinks-nodeps from 5.x repo is only 56Kb bigger than chimera2 from 4.x.
And just for the record, regarding 4.x repo, netrik would be 1/6th of the size of chimera2 ;)
Title: Re: chimera2 for TC 5.x
Post by: urbalazs on November 20, 2013, 05:53:44 PM: Both elinks and netrik are text based web browsers. Chimera is grafical web browser, the smallest grafical web browser. I would like to present HTML based presentations about Tiny Core on a machine running Tiny Core with very limited resources: 200 MHz CPU, 64 MB RAM, 16 MB Flash HDD.
That's why I need chimera. Please, make a 5.x package! :P
Title: Re: chimera2 for TC 5.x
Post by: gerald_clark on November 20, 2013, 06:57:10 PM: You really need: More CPU, more RAM, more flash.
Title: Re: chimera2 for TC 5.x
Post by: curaga on November 21, 2013, 04:09:30 AM: Links has a graphical mode, it can show pictures.
Title: Re: chimera2 for TC 5.x
Post by: theYinYeti on November 21, 2013, 07:34:18 AM: IMHO, links-based browsers (compiled with GUI support) are the modern way to go for a lightweight web browser. There are links, links2, elinks, links-hacked (not all available with TC), and they differ on support for Javascript, tabs, copy-paste.
Title: Re: chimera2 for TC 5.x
Post by: urbalazs on November 21, 2013, 11:09:00 AM: Quote from: gerald_clark on November 20, 2013, 06:57:10 PM
You really need: More CPU, more RAM, more flash.

I have a Neoware CA5 thin client using as desktop PC with Tiny Core. 200 MHz CPU, 64 MB RAM, 16 MB flash. No more CPU, no more RAM, no more flash. I can't upgrade it!
Title: Re: chimera2 for TC 5.x
Post by: theYinYeti on November 21, 2013, 11:19:41 AM: Your CPU and RAM should not be a problem. A year ago or so, I almost managed to customize TC to run on a laptop with 24MB RAM and a P166mmx CPU; that was a bit short, though. 200MHz and 64MB RAM should be OK. BTW, on said laptop, I could run DamnSmallLinux with X11 ;)
16MB of flash storage will be more difficult...
Title: Re: chimera2 for TC 5.x
Post by: Rich on November 21, 2013, 12:34:32 PM: Hi urbalazs
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I can't upgrade it!
Do you mean you are not allowed to upgrade it or you just think it can't be upgraded? If it's the latter, this might be useful:
http://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/neoware/CA5/
Depending on how large your backup file is, moving it to an external USB thumb drive might be worthwhile.
Title: Re: chimera2 for TC 5.x
Post by: georgp24 on November 22, 2013, 02:50:45 PM: FLTK allows to display e.g. help text in HTML including images. Maybe that is already sufficient for your presentations. TinyCore includes the FLTK libraries so making a tiny FLTK application to display your html files would be the smallest solution.