Choose Complexity
by Ben Huot
ben@benjamin-newton.com
www.benjamin-newton.com
Help for Alternative Desktop Systems
Get Firefox and PDF Viewer
The easiest way to make sure my website works and appears the way it is intended for alternative platforms is to use the latest Firefox available or NetSurf 2.1. The version of Firefox that is available for your platform will be the major factor in your level of experience. For most alternative platforms, you will have a basic or minimal experience, but this will likely improve over time. The OS/2 version of Firefox already offers an ultimate browsing experience.
Firefox is also available for BeOS, OS/2, and RISC OS. All 3 also have an xpdf 3 port (BePDF, XPDF, and !PDF) and which should work fine with my PDFs. Get the latest versions available.
BeOS Specific
BePDF should be able to view PDF versions of important texts. BeOS also has available a DjVu Viewer which should be able to view my optimized DjVu versions of popular texts. BeOS has Abiword available which should be able to open up the RTF versions of important texts.
Net Surf 2.1 works with my website, but I still encourage you to get Firefox. You can listen to my open source friendly audio with Sound Play.
OS/2 Specific
OS/2 has XPDF which should be able to view PDFs of important texts. OS/2 has a recent enough version of OpenOffice.org to open OpenDocument version as well as the RTF versions of important texts (RTF versions can also be opened with Lotus Smartsuite). You can listen to my open source friendly audio with PLOGG.
Don't forget to get Firefox.
RISC OS Specific
!PDF should work to see PDF versions of important texts.
Net Surf 2.1 works with my website, but I still encourage you to get Firefox. You can listen to my open source friendly audio with Vorbis Tools.
Amiga OS Specific
For AmigaOS, the only browser I can test is NetSurf 2.1 which works with my website. You can listen to my open source friendly audio with Simple Play.
