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Nowa days every one has a cd burnner and CDRs are
dirt cheap. Besides when was the last time you could find a blank floppy in less then 10 minutes?

I agree. I use LNX-BBC, which fits on a credit card sized CD. Meaning you can carry it round in your wallet or whatever, and have it at hand for all occasions.
It has an X window system, which even includes some games (to play when you are waiting for that fscking fsck!), and a full browser.

What is really useful, beyond the usual suite of maintanance/repair tools, is the comprehensive network tools. This is why it can be quite useful to carry around. It means you can put it into a windows box (e.g. on a windows only network) and use it for debugging a network problems. Or l337 activities.......

yeah, see my reply above as an AC about netscape being shitty. Its just that i am a browser junkie - ie, netscape, mozilla, opera, k-meleon (looking promising, very promising - but not there yet), konquerer, galeon (my favourite - truly next-gen user interface - IE will be stealing many of their idea's), whatever. I use them all. And my current flavour of the month is browsex - tiny footprint, liteweight, displays most things perfectly. Not all the bells and whistles, but that can be a good thing. Just a shame the name sounds like some perveted sexual fetish for men who can only achieve orgasm by having copulation with eye brows.

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BrowseX might be what you are looking for. While does have slightly expanded abilities than just a html parser, it is really quite small at about 2mb for a complete download. When they seperated the TCL libraries from the binary, it could fit on a floppy.

Here are some of my complaints so far...

1) Netscape's 6.0 installer is very unstable, and has a hard time coping with download problems because of stalls, etc. In fact, it took me a good four tries to get it to actually finish the install. Why can't we just have a tarball or something?

2) Netscape 6 itself breaks a number of standards supported in Mozilla, and is far too oriented to meet AOL's money-grubbing desires. Pardon me, but the browser should be for the user, not JUST the company. Companies have to make money, but I get tired of every single button or menu I click taking me to the horribly-slow Netscape site.

3) Netscape 6 is very unstable, yet the Mozilla code it is based off of runs much more smoothly. Looks like all those commercial tie-ins are causing Netscape to sink under its own commercial weight.

I had high hopes for Netscape. But it just doesn't cut it. I use the Opera for Linux port now, which, even though it is still in the alpha stage technically, can run circles around anything Netscape or Mozilla puts out. Sure there's no Java or plug-in support yet (neither of which I'm desperately needing), and it occasionally crashes, but at least it doesn't have all those weird glitches and standards issues that Netscape has.

On the Linux side, I think it's time we all start looking for or working on something better. I think the BrowseX browser looks particularly promising. It's open source, very capable already, and with some more development, could give the closed commercial browsers run for their money. But whatever happens, I honestly don't think Netscape will ever get much better. AOL simply has its priorities wrong, and has done a disservice to everyone by not coming through on a viable alternative browser.
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Oh, oh, oh make the laughter stop! This is too funny. But I thought it was the posters intention to post the message in plain text to be funny. I guess not because the BrowseX thing is for real. This is maybe even funnier! Oh, oh, ok(laughter under contrasjdaskidjaiosdj ha ha ha mmm ok).

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I haven't seen anybody mention it, so I guess I'll mention it here. There is a neat web browser called BrowseX which uses tcl/tk and a c html renderer. It supports images, https, frames and seems to render most pages correctly, even slashdot :)
Check it out here

(That comment shows why you should carefully check default form values when trying out a new browser so as not to look like an idiot.)