Comment by yesbabyyes
4 years ago
I used to have such a floppy. It was mindblowing, even though at the time 2 floppies would be enough to bootstrap a Debian install (if you had a common network card, the drivers of which were included).
Debian would just show the old curses-like installer, and pull the rest of the system from the repo, while QNX had a full GUI, network card/modem drivers, and a friggin web browser in 1.44 MB.
That browser (which can be seen on the page linked by GP) is astounding for its size.
Out of curiosity, what are currently the most minimal, "graphic" (i.e. not Links-like), browsers available today? Any Open Source ones?
Probably NetSurf. https://www.netsurf-browser.org
NetSurf is a great project, since unlike Dillo (another minimal web browser) it can handle a lot of sites out there while requiring very few resources. I use it often on a Raspberry Pi 2 i have next to me together with Dillo, but Dillo really only works with very very simple sites and mainly use it for reading HTML-based documentation.
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NetSurf's great, thank you! I'd be curious to try porting it to another "frontend" i.e. OS/device. I don't know how difficult that would be. The development documentation seems good:
http://source.netsurf-browser.org/netsurf.git/tree/docs
links actually does have a graphic mode... see http://links.twibright.com/features.php screenshots section.
It really isn't too bad.
And there's `w3m-img` which... isn't exactly a graphics mode, but it does inline images via $WINDOWID...
Thanks, I didn't know!
I loved Dillo but its development seems stuck. As a replacement I use netsurf.
Dillo is the usual mention.
There's BrowseX, built in Tcl/Tk.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/brx/
The Suckless browser, "surf", is pretty light and featureful:
https://surf.suckless.org/
Besides NetSurf there's also the bespoke browser in SerenityOS.