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[20.08.03: arvindn@meenakshi.iitm.ernet.in]
Erik Moeller wrote:
With some crack Linux hackers we should be able to whip up something that runs on a 486 (using a miniature Linux distro for embedded devices and a very lean webbrowser like Dillo).
I have a related suggestion: how about trying to get a regular linux distro to bundle wikipedia 1.0? It would be particularly attractive in third world counties. Also this requires no extra work like getting it to render properly on Dillo etc.
Which brings up my idea put on some of the no-feature-request Wikipedia:pages: a slick little Linux command line (or even GUI) tool that does nothing else than question (online) wikipedia and bring it's answers in a desired output format (html, plain ascii, tex, ps, pdf). I'm not really a programmer myself, but that should be quite simple -- and could be included/bundled in Linux distributions quite before Wikipedia 1.0. Something like "ask-wiki".
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