Re: Netscape   
     By: S/370 to KF5QEO on Sun Dec 15 2013 22:13:05   
      
    > I've been wondering, how usable was Slackware in the pre-2.0 kernel days? Li   
    > you said, X was a novelty but was it more or less as usable as Win95 or 311?   
    > (Minus the games of course lol)   
      
       Muuuuch fewer applications.  Video was a bit of a headache, sound was a   
   pain in the ass.  Networking was a little more difficult, I think, but this   
   could be incorrect just because I didn't know jack about TCP/IP at the time and   
   only had experience with running a crossover ethernet cable to one other   
   machine, and then ppp with a modem.  Pretty sure that the main things I used it   
   for at that point were multiple rxvt sessions (limited RAM--rxvt used less than   
   xterm) where I was just doing console crap, anyway, and xemacs (maybe some gvim   
   at the time, too, if that was available then).  Oh, and web browsing, though I   
   kept that to lynx whenever possible due to the browser's RAM requirements.   
      
     --Damo   
      
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