[Wolves] Encyclopaedia on linux

Simon Morris simon.morris at cmtww.com
Tue Apr 18 09:39:32 BST 2006


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Stuart Langridge wrote:
>> Mark Ellse wrote:
>>> Does anyone know of any CD-ROM encyclopaedia that works on linux?
>> Perhaps the best thing would be a web subscription?
>> http://www.britannica.com/ is quite a good one.  I would not go down the
>> "wikipedia will solve my problem" route yet
> 
> If you are prepared to use wikipaedia, then be aware that the
> information is downloadable, so it will work offline. I have zbedic on
> my PDA with all of the wikipaedia in it; I don't know, though, whether
> there's an offline browser for it for PCs.

Out of interest - how big is the data store for that and how does the
PDS store it?

Thats quite impressive.

~sm

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