Hi Michal, On 9/29/06, Michal Nowak <xnowak01@stud.fit.vutbr.cz> wrote:
Hi Alan,
well I am not sure how you could do it i(=desktop@floppy) but I think Dillo will be quite large with staticaly linked with fltk2.
Do you know how large is it?
May I ask you, how many space have you got on the floppy? Or you mean "the floppy" (1.4 MiB)? It would be great proof of concept...
Well, I am formatting it at 1.74 MB, and I will use compressed fs (squashfs). I think it will get ~ 3MB. Kernel: ~ 600KB (I am using kernel-tiny patch) Kdrive: ~ 600KB (I am using uClibc) Dillo-fltk: < 1.8 MB
The troubles with funds... it's quite longstanding problem. Dillo neads fulltime dev or two. There are companies which has Dillo build in their products and sold them, well, that's OK, but thay give nothing back... just sitting and waiting for Jorge. Comunity of Dillo is rather small, people from developed countrie have fast computers -> lack of hunger for such think Dillo is. Probably nobody will pay for releasing "another browser", coz hey have ff, opera, konq etc.
Dillo will be the best option for cheap linux cell phones. Then when these cell phone companies realise it is a best option it will invest. To do it we need emphasize Dillo qualities: the faster browser ever, the smallest footprint, etc. It is just "blow one's own horn" :)
But you can help Dillo with submitting code, if ou want to :).
Doing a small linux distro I will help to demonstre as powerful dillo is. And it will demonstre too the small dillo footprint.
CU, Michal
Cheers, Alan