From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 2 05:55:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA04810 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 2 Sep 1997 05:55:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pds-gateway.pdspc.com ([207.7.39.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA04805 for ; Tue, 2 Sep 1997 05:55:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by pds-gateway.pdspc.com with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1457.3) id ; Tue, 2 Sep 1997 07:56:47 -0500 Message-ID: <91DD7FDA88E4D011BED00000C0DD87E70ACA5E@pds-gateway.pdspc.com> From: Kenny Hanson To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Netscape Communicator 4.02b7 Date: Tue, 2 Sep 1997 07:56:46 -0500 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1457.3) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Yes, it would seem Netscape has fully joined the bloatware bandwagon... it's kind of a pity since I've always liked their product better than MS. I also ran it under a P90 16mb and it was swapping like there was no tomorrow. 24-32mb should do somebody just fine... 64 is always better :-) Kenny Hanson, Senior Research Analyst Paragon Development Systems Email: khanson@pdspc.com Web: http://www.pdspc.com Phone: (800) 966-6090 > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Korsten [SMTP:peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl] > Sent: Sunday, August 31, 1997 3:28 PM > To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Netscape Communicator 4.02b7 > > Kenny Hanson shared with us: > > > > [original question was whether Netscape 4.02b7 was thinned out] > > > > I'm afraid not. It comes with just about everything that installs > > with NT or 95. The .tar.gz file is 7,132,310 bytes in size > (yikes!). > > Something very scary: Netscape 4.02 works pretty fine on my 16 Mb > machine with Windows 95, but is hardly useable due to the large > memory consumation with FreeBSD 2.2.2 and Xfree86. > > 'Top' shows that Netscape takes some 13 Mb Mb memory (YIKES!). > > - Peter