In my continuing quest for a good lightweight web browser, I discovered Links2. It’s a fork from Lynx (text-only browser), with support for graphics, tables, Javascript, and apparantly Frames. Visit the Links2 website: http://links.twibright.com/. It looks and works the same in Links2 as it does in Epiphany - great! Links2 is fast, uses up less than a megabyte of RAM, supports some log-in sites that Dillo doesn’t (but Dillo supports some that Links2 doesn’t), has anti-aliased text, optional Referrer and User-Agent faking, and lots of other great little features. And it’s so fantastically stable. You can even run it in text-mode, although I tend to prefer w3m for text-mode browsing.
I’ve also downloaded the Hacked Links Project, which combines features from Links2 and Elinks (which was another fork). I’ll try it out in a little while.
Also, I downloaded Prelink. When I next restart I suppose my programs will start faster… or slower; I don’t know which. I’ll give you a status report.
Xubuntu Dapper Beta is up to number 32 in the Distrowatch list. It looks like quite a few people are interested in learning more about it. I’ve heard it has come a long way from Xubuntu Breezy, which frustrated me endlessly.
For those of you who don’t know, Xubuntu is a version of Ubuntu. Instead of using the Gnome desktop though, Xubuntu uses the Xfce desktop environment, which is lightweight (uses little memory and disk space). I’m seriously thinking of trying it out in the next couple of days, before my next billing month starts for broadband. Of course, I also want to download and try Ubuntu Dapper and Kubuntu Dapper.
Unfortunately, I only have a couple of hundred megs left of my download allowance before it’s shaped back to 64kbps; so I’ll have to choose one and one only.
I wonder what Edgy Elk (the next version of Ubuntu which uses bleeding-edge technologies and lots processing power) will do to Xubuntu?
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