From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 15 15:10:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from berzerk.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (berzerk.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 984C337B479 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 15:10:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from galaxian.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (smtp@galaxian.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.146]) by berzerk.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/4.3-mailhub) with ESMTP id SAA01260; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 18:10:39 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (timcm@localhost) by galaxian.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/5.1-client) with ESMTP id SAA14057; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 18:10:39 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 18:10:39 -0500 (EST) From: Tim McMillen X-Sender: timcm@galaxian.gpcc.itd.umich.edu To: Zero Sum Cc: James Lim , freda chua , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd In-Reply-To: <00111609565404.43667@shalimar.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Zero Sum wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > On Thursday 16 November 2000 01:20, Tim McMillen wrote: > > I think freda saw that? So if you have the ports tree installed, su to > > root and type > > cd /usr/ports/www/netscape47-navigator > > make && make install && male clean > > > > That is how to make a port into something you can use. Of course you have > > to be running X to use netscape. There are three versions of Netscape > > available for FreeBSD. The BSDi, Linux and the above. You'll have to > > pick the one you want. Have fun, > > > > > I have never been able to figure out adequare grouds for my choice. What > factors do you consider important? Geoff, Actually, I usually use konqueror in KDE2 if I'm running X at all. It has a smaller memory footprint than Netscape, seems more stable, and works perfectly as a local file viewer too. I only use netscape if I need to see something that uses javascript. (I don't want to turn on javascript in Konqueror.) And that's not that often. So when I do use netscape, I use the Linux version because there are things like the flash plugin available. I end up using lynx from the console pretty often too. It's great that the Freebsd website is so useable from lynx. Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message