Hitchhiker's Guide to Openbsd

Graphical (X) Browsers 
●
Konqueror
 Installed as part of the 
KDE desktop environment
. 
●
Links+
 Another fast and small graphical browser. (Also has a text-only mode) 
●
Firefox
 and 
SeaMonkey
 Feature-filled browsers. SeaMonkey includes many non-browser 
features (mail client, IRC client, etc.), Firefox is just a browser, based on Mozilla. 
●
Opera
Commercial browser, i386 only (requires Linux emulation). 
●
Amaya
 The W3C's browser and editor. 
●
Kazehakase
, a lightweight browser able to use either the WebKit or Gecko rendering engines. 
●
Midori
, a WebKit-based browser from the Xfce project. 
●
Chromium
the open source version of the Google Chrome browser, i386/amd64 only (so far). 
●
XXXTerm
 a minimalist browser with vi-like keyboard operations in addition to traditional 
browser behavior 
●
Conkeror
a keyboard-oriented, highly-customizable, highly-extensible web browser based on 
Mozilla. 
Console (Text mode) Browsers 
●
elinks
Feature-rich, can render both frames and tables, highly customizable. 
●
w3m
Has table and frame support (also has a graphical mode). 
●
links
 Has table support. 
You will find all these in the 
packages collection
. All the above mentioned browsers are located in 
/
usr/ports/www/
after the installation of the ports tree. Most are also available as pre-compiled 
packages
, available on the 
FTP servers
 and on the 
CD-ROM
. As most of the graphical browsers are very 
large and require quite some time to download and compile, one should seriously 
consider
the use of 
packages where available. 
8.15 - How do I use the mg editor?
mg(1)
is a micro Emacs-style text editor included in OpenBSD. Micro means that it's a small 
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq8.html (14 of 20)9/4/2011 10:02:10 AM

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8 - General Questions
implementation which is mostly similar to the text editor features of Emacs 17. It does not implement 
many of Emacs' other functionality (including mail and news functionality, as well as modes for Lisp, C+
+, Lex, Awk, Java, etc...). 
A concise 
tutorial
is included with OpenBSD (located at 
/usr/share/doc/mg/tutorial
).