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Menuet 32 bit

Posted by: joebutton on June 15, 2006 07:16 PM

In addition to the Menuet you linked to, which is non-free and only works on 64 bit machines, there's a fork that's GPL and works on 32 bit machines, which might suit some people better. <a href="http://menuet.homelinux.net/Main_Page" title="homelinux.net">http://menuet.homelinux.net/Main_Page</a homelinux.net>.



I gave it a go a few months ago and found it ran like lightning but lacked some essential apps (eg. web browser) and was a bit prone to crashing. Fun though.



Given the speed of the thing I was thinking that a good standards-compliant web browser could turn this into a serious option for low end machines. If it coped with ajax then the brave new world of web applications we keep hearing about would open up.

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