From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 9 01:53:49 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA06167 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 01:53:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from guru.phone.net (guru.phone.net [209.157.82.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA06162 for ; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 01:53:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@phone.net) Received: (qmail 1219 invoked by uid 100); 9 Jan 1999 09:53:17 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 9 Jan 1999 09:53:17 -0000 Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 01:53:17 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Meyer To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: amaya & toth & a small x whinge (was: find/search a string in Netscape) In-Reply-To: <19990109202706.J5652@caamora.com.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 Sat, 9 Jan 1999, jonathan michaels wrote: > > Ah, I missed that. How about running it on FreeBSD as a Linux binary? > > i did think about that .. but, the root cause of my systems unreliability is > running xfree itself, i get allsorts of core dumps from all sorts of programs, > from ee upto teh big daddy netscape, thier is no rhyme or reason. it all > started soon after v2.1.7 and i cannot pin it down. ouch... > i was happily runing freebsd and xfree on a i486dx33 with 16 mb then i > upgraded to v2.1.7 AND this problem started, a freind suggested it was time > to update. i went to a p5-133 and 64 mb dram and pci buslogic 958, smc digital > chip set nic, and a stb trio 64v+ graphcis card .. the same problem manifested, > so i thought i'd give it one last try. 2.1.7? Not 2.2.7? Try 2.2.8, or better yet, 3.0-RELEASE. I'm not completely happy with XFree, and am thinking about buying one of the commercial servers. > > > > I took a brief look a building Amaya on NetBSD, then got > > > > > > how did it compare with arena, look and feel isues,tools availability ? > > > > Never got it working. The distraction was the FreeBSD box :-). The > > NetBSD box is still there, but slated to be replaced by a FreeBSD one. Well, FreeBSD doesn't run on the NetBSD box. I was running it before the war. I went to FreeBSD for my workstation for a number of reasons. The NetBSD box needs to be ugpraded and able to run binaries from my workstation, so... > > development would be welcome. And even if it works, I'd certainly be > > interested in Amaya/Thoth. Proably won't replace psgml for creating > > me too, and this psgml .. que, psgml psgml is an emacs SGML editing mode. Runs in my favorite editor, and understands the structure of HTML documents, so I can ask it "What's a legal tag here", or just tell it "close the currently open tag." > i have no real need to 'do html' for a living so to speak, but i am looking > for an editor that will allow this sort of functionality .. i looked at > docbook and nearly turned in my grave .. i left all that behind after my stint > with wordstar v3.3.something. > > regards > > jonathan > > ps i'll keep you posted and anybody else if there interested, regarding amaya. > but, please it will not be tomorrow .. as the saying goes. Well, the pointer to the LINUX-ELF binary showed up, and it's running *right now* Seems reasonably zippy, No uglier than Netscape, but not as pretty as Arena was. More as I play with it...