Thursday, July 11, 2024

Web Browsers

 I have 10 browsers installed but my default is Firefox (nearly 600MB install as big as LibreOffice, all due various languages) and I really like KDE Falkon

Graphical Browsers

   1. Firefox - Open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation

2. Chromium - Open source web browser used as a base Google Chrome

3. Konqueror - The default web browser under KDE

4. Epiphany- GNOME Web - (epiphany-browser package) Simple yet powerful GNOME web browser targeted at non-technical users

5. surf - Simple web browser by suckless

6. TorBrowser - Firefox-based Web browser aimed at defending against tracking, surveillance, and censorship.

7. Falkon - (formerly qupzilla) Lightweight web browser based on Chromium

8. midori - Fast, lightweight graphical web browser (available in bullseye and buster) not available in latest kernels.

9. qutebrowser - Keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on ?PyQt5

10. luakit - Fast and small web browser extensible by Lua

Console

Web browsers that can be used in a terminal emulator environment.

1. edbrowse - Line oriented text-mode editor & browser. Supports HTTP, FTP, scripts, editor, mail client.

2. elinks - Advanced text-mode WWW browser

3. links - Web browser running in text mode

4. links2 - Web browser running in both graphics and text mode

6. lynx - Classic text-mode web browser with support for Gopher, HTTP, FTP, WAIS, and NNTP protocols

7. w3m - WWW browsable pager with excellent tables/frames support

Third Party Browsers

The following web browsers in are not in the Debian repositories, and thus require the use of third party repositories to install them on Debian

Free browsers

1. Brave

ungoogled-chromium

Non-Free browsers

2. Opera

Inactive projects

3. conkeror

4. netsurf-gtk

5. uzbl


2 Pane or 4 Pane View and FileLight

By the way, I left 3  1GB external hard drives in Ceylon, all my work of over two decades. 

They were meant to be but in my coffin, so that when mankind destroys this world (NATO is the biggest WAR Monger) in a stroke of madness and hate, in a future date an Alien Species would discover there was a doctor guy who was mad about Linux

The reason being, guys at the airport in Ceylon and Australia would have thought, I was a CIA guy snooping and pulled out all my luggage and made my holiday travel a certain misery.

I do not have all my files, not in the cloud (in other words, literally in a CIA folder) but in my head.

2 Pane or 4 Pane View

If one has a tiny hard disk (320GB) with over 22 partitions and 4 of the same instances of the Debian Gnome distribution installed, it is nice to have an overview in NOT one Pane but 2 or 4 panes.

Gnome commander is in 2 Panes and give me an overview of the entire hard disk. But unless I have command line tesxts I cannot open any of them.

Whereas 4 Pane give me all the information including cash, configuration and details.

1. First Pane give me my /home/bono 

it goes like

.cash

.config

Desktop Folder

Documents Folder

Downloads Folder 

2. The Pane 2 gives me 

bash history

Emac history 

My profile 

3. Pane 43

I thinks gives the active file used like Firefox and SNAP

4. Pane 4

If I go to the  pane 4, it tells me I have Brave installed.

 

FileLight

By the way, Filelight is a KDE utility which lets me scan

1. Folder

2. Home Folder

3. Root Folder

inner most center /usr/ 21.2GB in the center (out of 25GB)

1st circle /usr/share with all the libraies 

2nd circle /usr/share and /usr/lib/

3rd circle gives me how much memory is taken by each application and there are 4th and 5th circles that give me tiny information, I never bother about all my life.

By the way, all files are big and little test files and arranging them in folder makes bird's eye view of the file system.



 

Calibre E-book Reader and E-Book Editor

Calibre E-book Reader and E-Book Editor

I have got altogether 4 instances of Debian Gnome in my NUC with 320GB hard disk.

In one of the Gnome instances;

I have got 630,000 odd files of 12.5GB capacity in my root folder of 15GB but my home folder has only 2.0GB of storage with 12.5GB remaining to download any ISO image which I want to test.

What matters is the working /home folder!

I have installed tons of applications including Statistics and Databases, just to test them before finishing my book on "Linux Essentials".

This is what makes Linux file hierarchy and functionality excellent which neither Microsoft Widows and Apple Mac could not match in my life time.

I can safely say these guys who use these proprietary software and hardware are either fabulously rich or stupid to go with their opulence / abundance.

My goal before my demise is to make Linux PC usage to become 10%. 

It is a big ask.

In other words, there is one clever guy among, nine other not so clever guys.

This web site will function long after my demise and one could peruse here, over 2500 entries. 

Only about 30 guys visit this site daily and I have blocked all Google Advertisements and I have no commercial interests and after over 25 years, I have not received a cent from Google.

This site was named Linux 100 to give a running commentary of all Old and New Linux distributions.

Unlike the www.distrowatch.com which is geared to make an income, usually hit rates but "NOT THE REAL USERS" my contributions are always FREE.

I am Going to ditch Google before my demise and I am probing alternative avenues.

Coming back to Callibre which comes from KDE Desktop is a very useful utility which I downloaded last as my Linux application. One can install on Gnome desktop using SNAP.

I am writer and working on 5 books currently, only using Linux utilities to write and I would like to review my own books using Callibre. 

It also has a E-book viewer and E-book editor.

One is at his or her own liberty to download and test them.

Bunsen Lab Linux

I am curently downloading Bunsen Lab latest version to test Live.

It is 1.7GB.

Bunsen Lab Linux

This is to report that, I saw a wrong comment on a YouTube presentation by a woman who has no understanding of Linux, saying Bunsen Lab cannot configure WiFi.

This comment was wrong, I am live here, from Bunsen Lab on a USB and it effortlessly configured WiFi and I am posting this to prove it is Live from a Bunsen Lab Distribution.

Long long time ago, I used Crunch Bang Linux and its versatility is a minimalist form but was a good workhorse, then.

Mind you Internet was horrible then, in Ceylon.

I am posting this from Australia.

Just Like in Snal Linux it has all the keyboard or Super key commands on the right hand side of the desktop.

The browser, the Firefox is smooth and fast is on the top right hand corner.

It is only 1.8GB. 

Software installer is Synaptic Package Manager, which is versatile by itself.

It has Dropbox, Dilo and Chromium available for install and I did not try them on a Live session.

Yes, I tried Dilo and Abiword and it installed both of them briskly.

I have no hesitation to recommend it, if one is looking for minimalist distribution as opposed to KDE/Plasma.

I do not use Plasma at all but Gnome is my basic.

Good work, guys and girls of Bunsen Lab

BIG Thank YOU.

CrunchBang was a Debian GNU/Linux based distribution offering a great blend of speed, style and substance. 

Using the nimble Openbox Window Manager, it is highly customisable and provided a modern, full-featured GNU/Linux system without sacrificing performance.

Development of CrunchBang has ended, but it inspired the creation of some excellent spin-off projects by community members.

    CrunchBang++
    Bunsen Labs