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Legacy Forums => General Discussion (Legacy) => Topic started by: Martin on April 11, 2002, 03:16:55 AM

Title: Is there a web browser for SME ?
Post by: Martin on April 11, 2002, 03:16:55 AM

Hi I'm looking for a web browser like IE/Netscape.. is there such a thing.?



regards
Martin

Title: Re: Is there a web browser for SME ?
Post by: Dan Brown on April 11, 2002, 03:21:26 AM

Not that I know of without installing X (which is not advised).

Title: Re: Is there a web browser for SME ?
Post by: trevorb on April 11, 2002, 04:31:23 AM

If you're looking to do browsing from the command line on your sme box, you can use lynx (already installed). If you want a graphical version??? as Dan said...

Trevor B

Martin wrote:
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> Hi I'm looking for a web browser like IE/Netscape.. is there
> such a thing.?
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> regards
> Martin

Title: Re: Is there a web browser for SME ?
Post by: Dub Dublin on April 12, 2002, 06:39:25 PM

Seems to me there's a need for an X-less graphical web-browser for Linux.  Does anyone know if any of the embedded distros have such a beast?

(I'm looking at what it would take to graft a nice graphical status panel onto SME, since the cheapest server hardware I can find has a 10" LCD screen, and it seems a shame to waste it.  A web interface is obviously the easiest, but the local browser problem is tough.)

Title: Re: Is there a web browser for SME ?
Post by: Les Mikesell on April 12, 2002, 08:17:49 PM

If you want X, install it instead of re-inventing something worse.

Title: Re: Is there a web browser for SME ?
Post by: Dub Dublin on April 12, 2002, 08:36:35 PM

Actually, I would like to avoid X (especially Xfree) of course,  due to its well-known security flaws.  

I was just wondering if there's not a graphical browser of some kind already out there for Linux that does not rely on a network extensible windowing infrastructure.  If there is, it probably avoids the security threat X presents.  My guess is that some of the handheld Linux distros may well have something suitable, although I haven't had the time to check yet...  (Perhaps a browser based directly on SVGAlib or GGI?  I'm not sure what's out there.)