When I was in high school in the early 2000s, my daily driver was a 70MHz SPARCstation 5. Not a fast machine, but Dillo ran on it well. I'm glad it's still around.
That's a pretty exotic machine for someone in high school!
Where did you get it?
25 Years of Dillo
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#22Or, as I read it in my head "Dil...oh"
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#24>On March of 2000, the license was changed to the GPLv3 with the permission of Raph Levien (the main developer of Gzilla/Armadillo). This does not sound right. GPLv3 is much newer than that.
dillo-0.1.0 release notes from March 2000: > * Changed the licence to GPL. (Raph agreed on that) So it's probably just a typo in the article. Intended point is that the license was changed from Gzilla's private copyright notice[1] to the GPL of the time, which would probably be v2. Nonetheless Dillo's code is also licensed under GPLv3 now. 1: https://levien.com/gzilla/Copying.txt
Oh, right! I'll fix that after coffee, thanks!
Edit: fixed!
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ladybird is pretty far from approachable for most folks at this point but one day will hopefully be a great option in that space
Unfortunately, with it's use of Swift code, QT (which is now a bloated piece of trash since version 5) etc. It's just not tenable unless they give us a pure version without that shit
Why/how does the presence of Swift make QT a bloated piece of trash?
Genuine question. I know little of QT and nothing of its history re: Swift or version 5.
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#27Coincidentally, the Dillo FOSDEM talk also got accepted yesterday[1], so I'll try to make something special for the 25 year ocassion :)
[1]: https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4100-resu...
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#28Dillo to me is a triumph that exhibits everything great about lightweight environments on Linux. When I had almost no money and an even massively out of date for the time Pentium 2 laptop, I was able to get a version of puppy Linux running and using dillo to browse the web and it was lightning fast. Dillo is and has always been relentlessly lightweight and in my mind no other browser compared at executing on this mis…
What about Netsurf? Have you tried it?
Personally, I’m resisting upgrading to links from lynx.
Re: 25 Years of Dillo
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ladybird is pretty far from approachable for most folks at this point but one day will hopefully be a great option in that space
Unfortunately, with it's use of Swift code, QT (which is now a bloated piece of trash since version 5) etc. It's just not tenable unless they give us a pure version without that shit
QT I can see how it is disturbing.
Swift I can not see how it would bloat anything for end users. It’s just another compiled language.
Re: 25 Years of Dillo
#30When I was in high school in the early 2000s, my daily driver was a 70MHz SPARCstation 5. Not a fast machine, but Dillo ran on it well. I'm glad it's still around.
That's a pretty exotic machine for someone in high school! Where did you get it?
eBay. Came from a university originally, and I bought it with the earnings of my weekend retail job. First computer I bought with my own money.
I still have that machine.