From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 15 7:51:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from majordomo2.umd.edu (majordomo2.umd.edu [128.8.10.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2281837BC77 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 07:51:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from culverk@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac7.wam.umd.edu (root@rac7.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.147]) by majordomo2.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA00243; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 10:48:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac7.wam.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac7.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA17624; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 10:48:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac7.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA17620; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 10:48:46 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: rac7.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 10:48:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: Trevor Johnson Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , mike johnson , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fbsd,bsdi,linux netscape In-Reply-To: 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 I wish the netscape people would just compile it for an ELF FreeBSD system... like a 3.x and a 4.0 compile... That would be much better... I'm tired of using the linux netscape. ================================================================= | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade | | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| ================================================================= On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Trevor Johnson wrote: > > The freebsd version runs fine by itself, but there are some plugins > > which are available only for the linux version. I don't know the > > advantages of the bsdi version. > > I prepared the bsdi-netscape-* ports. They don't require a.out X > libraries (it's mentioned in their DESCR files), and of course don't > require Linux compatibility. The FreeBSD versions also worked for me, but > the a.out libraries took up about 10 MB IIRC and most people don't have > anything else that uses them. I figured Netscape was big enough already. > :-) > -- > Trevor Johnson > http://jpj.net/~trevor/gpgkey.txt > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message