On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 10:08:01PM -0800, Mike Strickland wrote: > This might be a dumb question...but I want a text-based javascript-enabled web >browser. My dilemma is: 150mhz 16mb laptop with Debian 3.0. I recently installed X >so I would be able to use a regular browser and hence have javascripting but...it >takes more than 30 minutes to boot with X. I know it shouldn't take that long, and I >haven't changed many of the display features, but I don't want X. However, is there >any way I can validate my connection to UT's networks without having X? How do you >guys do it? Do you all have X? Probably so...any help is appreciated. Thx. Ciao
first off, that's seriously bogus boot time. have you watched the boot process to figure out where it's spending its time? that machine isn't even supertiny, but more important than changing your x config is turning off services you don't need, such as daemons like sendmail...swapping is probably a big time-sink, and it sucks to swap when you don't have to. i'm not sure if recompiling your kernel would be much of a win since IIRC debian is mostly modular anyhow, but it probably wouldn't hurt (build it on a different machine!) my first linux machine was a 486/80 16M and it took like 3 minutes to boot into X, tops. as to a text-based javascript-capable browser, i don't know of any. lynx didn't do it as of a year ago (last time i updated), the other two worth talking about a year ago were 'links' and 'w3m', so you might investigate them. since the UT-auth page is fairly static and simple, you could probably fake it with a mildly complex script/program, i know a guy who uses a java program to register for classes online here at UT and i'm sure they use some JS.. let us know if you figure it out (i have a 386sx/6mb laptop that might have to come out of retirement. no chance of X on it...) luck++; _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
