Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 08:59:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net> To: Christophe Juniet <cjuniet@entreview.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: docs/41106: FreeBSD Handbook lacks "Desktop Applications" chapter. Message-ID: <20020811072314.A16333-100000@blues.jpj.net> In-Reply-To: <20020805121707.B82287@abigail.blackend.org>
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Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> -Check the names of packages, from a 4.6-STABLE:
> pkg_add -rv linux-netscape6
The Netscape 6 ports are marked RESTRICTED because of their licensing, so
packages should not appear on the FTP sites. I've also marked them
FORBIDDEN because of a security bug, but perhaps corrected versions will
be available someday.
> Browser section:
> -Maybe you could tell that Opera is a commercial app :) and give the
> link to their website.
Here are my suggestions for this section. I accidentally changed some
spaces to tabs when I ran "fmt".
--- desktop-browsers.html.orig Tue Aug 6 07:16:52 2002
+++ desktop-browsers.html Sun Aug 11 05:54:05 2002
@@ -42,43 +42,41 @@
<h1 class="SECT1"><a name="DESKTOP-BROWSERS">6.2
Browsers</a></h1>
- <p>FreeBSD does not come with a particular browser
- pre-installed. Instead, the www ports collection contains a
+ <p>FreeBSD does not come with a particular browser pre-installed.
+ Instead, the www category in the ports collection contains a
lot of browsers ready to be installed. If you don't have time
- to compile everything (this can be very long in some cases)
- many of them are available as packages.</p>
+ to compile everything (this can take a very long time in some
+ cases) many of them are available as packages.</p>
- <p>Some Desktop Environments, like <b class=
- "APPLICATION">KDE</b> and <b class="APPLICATION">GNOME</b>,
- already provide a HTML browser. Please refer to the <a href=
- "x11-wm.html">Desktop Environments</a> section of the
- handbook for more information on how to setup these complete
- desktops.</p>
+ <p><b class= "APPLICATION">KDE</b> and <b
+ class="APPLICATION">GNOME</b> already provide HTML browsers.
+ Please refer to the <a href= "x11-wm.html">Desktop Environments</a>
+ section of the Handbook for more information on how to set up
+ these complete desktops.</p>
<div class="SECT2">
<h2 class="SECT2"><a name="AEN6277">6.2.1 Mozilla</a></h2>
<p><b class="APPLICATION">Mozilla</b> is perhaps the most
- recommendable browser for your FreeBSD Desktop. It is
- modern, stable, and fully ported to FreeBSD. It features a
- very standards-compliant HTML engine. It also provides with
- a mail and news reader so it comes in really handy. It has
- even got a HTML composer if you plan to write some web
- pages yourself. Users of <b class=
- "APPLICATION">Netscape</b> will recognize the <b class=
- "APPLICATION">Communicator</b> suite, as both browsers once
- shared the same basis.</p>
-
- <p>On slow machines with a frequency less than 233MHz or
- with less than 64MB of RAM, <b class=
- "APPLICATION">Mozilla</b> can be too resource consuming to
- be fully usable. You may want to look at the <b class=
- "APPLICATION">Opera</b> browser instead, described a little
- further in this chapter.</p>
+ suitable browser for your FreeBSD desktop. It is modern,
+ stable, and fully ported to FreeBSD. It features a very
+ standards-compliant HTML engine. It provides a mail and
+ news reader. It even has a HTML composer if you plan to
+ write Web pages yourself. Users of <b
+ class="APPLICATION">Netscape</b> will recognize the <b
+ class="APPLICATION">Communicator</b> suite, as both browsers
+ share the same basis.</p>
+
+ <p>On slow machines with a frequency less than 233 MHz or
+ with less than 64 MB of RAM,
+ <b class="APPLICATION">Mozilla</b> can be too resource-consuming
+ to be fully usable. You may want to look at the
+ <b class= "APPLICATION">Opera</b> browser instead, described
+ a little further on in this chapter.</p>
<p>If you cannot or do not want to compile <b class=
- "APPLICATION">Mozilla</b> for any reason, the FreeBSD Team
- has already done this for you. Just install the package
+ "APPLICATION">Mozilla</b> for any reason, the FreeBSD GNOME
+ team has already done this for you. Just install the package
from the network by typing:</p>
<pre class="SCREEN">
<tt class="PROMPT">#</tt> <tt class=
@@ -86,7 +84,7 @@
</pre>
<p>If the package is not available but you have enough time
- and hard-disk space, you can get the sources of <b class=
+ and disk space, you can get the sources of <b class=
"APPLICATION">Mozilla</b>, compile it and install it on
your system. This is easily accomplished by:</p>
<pre class="SCREEN">
@@ -99,8 +97,8 @@
<p>After <b class="APPLICATION">Mozilla</b> is installed,
you may want to first run it as <tt class=
"USERNAME">root</tt> to ensure a correct initialization. It
- is also the right time to fetch some add-ons and plugins as
- they require <tt class="USERNAME">root</tt> priviledges to
+ is also the right time to fetch some add-ons and plug-ins as
+ they require <tt class="USERNAME">root</tt> privileges to
get installed.</p>
<p>Once you are set, you do not need to be <tt class=
@@ -113,7 +111,7 @@
</pre>
<p>You can start it directly as a mail and news reader as
- follow:</p>
+ follows:</p>
<pre class="SCREEN">
<tt class="PROMPT">%</tt> <tt class=
"USERINPUT"><b>mozilla -mail</b></tt>
@@ -124,37 +122,31 @@
<h2 class="SECT2"><a name="AEN6313">6.2.2 Netscape</a></h2>
<p>The ports collection contains several versions of the
- Netscape browser. Note that Nescape dropped support of the
- 4.x family for the FreeBSD platform in favor of the
- upcoming Netscape 6/7.</p>
-
- <p>While you can install a FreeBSD native Netscape browser,
- you may want to use a more recent Linux vesion. In this
- case, you have to get the <a href="linuxemu.html">Linux
- Binary Compatibility</a> package.</p>
+ Netscape browser. Since the native FreeBSD ones contain a
+ serious security bug, installing those is strongly discouraged.
+ Instead, use a more recent Linux or DIGITAL UNIX version.
+ To use a Linux one, you have to get the
+ <a href="linuxemu.html">Linux binary compatibility</a>
+ package.</p>
<p>The next step is to install the browser itself. The
- lastest stable release of the Netscape browser is Netscape
- 6. It can be installed with this simple command:</p>
-<pre class="SCREEN">
- <tt class="PROMPT">#</tt> <tt class=
-"USERINPUT"><b>pkg_add -r linux-netscape6</b></tt>
-</pre>
-
- <p>If for some reason, this package is not available for
- download, you can use the ports collection. Simply do:</p>
+ latest stable release of the Netscape browser is Netscape
+ 6. It can be installed from the ports collection. Simply do:</p>
<pre class="SCREEN">
<tt class="PROMPT">#</tt> <tt class=
"USERINPUT"><b>cd /usr/ports/www/linux-netscape6</b></tt>
<tt class="PROMPT">#</tt> <tt class=
"USERINPUT"><b>make install clean</b></tt>
</pre>
+ <p>There are localized versions in the french, german, and
+ japanese categories.</p>
<div class="CAUTION">
<blockquote class="CAUTION">
- <p><b>Caution:</b> Netscape 3.x or 4.x versions are not
- recommended as they are very old, poorly compliant with
- today's standards and fairly unsecure.</p>
+ <p><b>Caution:</b> Netscape 4.x versions are not
+ recommended because they are not compliant with today's
+ standards. However, Netscape 6 is only available for
+ the i386 platform.</p>
</blockquote>
</div>
</div>
@@ -163,12 +155,13 @@
<h2 class="SECT2"><a name="AEN6330">6.2.3 Opera</a></h2>
<p><b class="APPLICATION">Opera</b> is a very fast,
- full-featured, and standards-compliant browser. It is
- originally developped for Linux but it runs flawlessly on
- FreeBSD thanks to the binary compatibility. Before you can
- browse the web with <b class="APPLICATION">Opera</b>, you
- must enable the <a href="linuxemu.html">Linux Binary
- Compatibility</a>.</p>
+ full-featured, and standards-compliant browser. It comes
+ in two versions: one which displays advertising, and one
+ which costs money. It is released for Linux but runs
+ flawlessly on FreeBSD, thanks to the binary compatibility.
+ Before you can browse the Web with
+ <b class="APPLICATION">Opera</b>, you must enable the
+ <a href="linuxemu.html">Linux binary compatibility</a>.</p>
<p>Once this is done, you just have to install the <b
class="APPLICATION">Opera</b> package:</p>
@@ -177,9 +170,9 @@
"USERINPUT"><b>pkg_add -r linux-opera</b></tt>
</pre>
- <p>Sometimes, some ftp sites do not have all the packages
- but the same result can be obtained with the ports
- collection by typing:</p>
+ <p>Some FTP sites do not have all the packages, but the
+ same result can be obtained with the ports collection by
+ typing:</p>
<pre class="SCREEN">
<tt class="PROMPT">#</tt> <tt class=
"USERINPUT"><b>cd /usr/port/www/linux-opera</b></tt>
@@ -190,7 +183,7 @@
<div class="TIP">
<blockquote class="TIP">
<p><b>Tip:</b> Many of the ports using the <a href=
- "linuxemu.html">Linux Binary Compatibility</a> start
+ "linuxemu.html">Linux binary compatibility</a> start
with ``linux-''. Remember this when you search for a
particular port, for instance with <a href=
"http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=whereis&sektion=1">;
@@ -202,7 +195,7 @@
<div class="SECT2">
<h2 class="SECT2"><a name="AEN6354">6.2.4 *
- Plugins</a></h2>
+ Plug-ins</a></h2>
<p>flash, java, real, etc</p>
</div>
@@ -250,4 +243,3 @@
"mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">doc@FreeBSD.org</a>>.</small></p>
</body>
</html>
-
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Trevor Johnson
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