Date: 02 Apr 2002 23:43:26 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anti-Unix Site Runs Unix Message-ID: <1017756809.75949.53.camel@chowder.dons.net.au> In-Reply-To: <3CA970CD.E76C6568@mindspring.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020401153352.02b99760@nospam.lariat.org> <3CA8EB5F.2E91B408@mindspring.com> <1017709221.71119.5.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> <3CA91382.4E4E2B@mindspring.com> <1017714456.71119.20.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> <3CA93944.D72D6AB7@mindspring.com> <1017724424.71119.79.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> <3CA970CD.E76C6568@mindspring.com>
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On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 18:20, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > I already have Netscape. You guys were arguing about Netscape > > > not working, and then you go and point me at Netscape... sheesh. > > > > Uhh Mozilla != Netscape 4.x > > Netscape 6.x. > > Without the Netscape connection, it fails to support Java. Really? I don't think you tried very hard. I have Mozilla/Galeon running here with a native JDK. > > > I'm pretty sure that Galeon a whole bunch of stuff, plus > ^requires > > > the Galeon stuff, to work. People were complaining about > > > it on -hackers, just the other day, when it took them 8 > > > hours to pull it down over their 28k modem. > > > > I can't parse the first part of that sentence. > > Sorry; I've inserted the missing token... 8-). OK, yes it does suck. Deal with it, or use something like Skipstone (or Mozilla :) > > the 3.5Mb would be worth it for a browser that crashes way _way_ less > > and has many more useful features. > > But it's binary. And it's supported. And it's not explicitly > labelled as "for testing purposes only!" on the download lead-in > page. Err, and? Anyway I had assumed that you were talking about NS 4.x. > Yes. This is the page where it said the code is for testing > purposes only, in a dark bold font. The size argument vs. the > browser that comes with the OS is: > > Mozilla 17.9M > gtk+ > glib > gettext Comes with what OS? Also, gtk is 4.5Mb uncompressed, glib is 500kb and gettext is 500kb. You mentioned nothing about it being unsupported as your primary reason for not using it in your last email... --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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