From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 12 10:44:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F155837B422; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:44:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id KAA21997; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:44:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:44:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: David Uhring Cc: "O. Hartmann" , Mark Lovretovich , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netscape/Linux on FreeBSD an other horrors ... In-Reply-To: <00091119231200.01827@dave> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, David Uhring wrote: > So turn off Java-scripting, visit http://www.netscape.com/ and they will point > you to their download site. Select Netscape for FreeBSD and download it. > Before installing, check in /usr/local/netscape for the name of the binary. > I'm running Linux right now and do not remember exactly, but I think you have > to rename 'netscape' to 'communicator-something' to make the wrappers work. > Install the XFree86 a.out libs if you have not done so already. Keep > java-scripting turned off and your Netscape installation will be stable. > Allowing strangers to execute arbitrary java-script code on your machine is, > IMHO, not very security-conscious, anyway. Javascript isn't the big problem - Java is. There seem to be serious threading problems with the JVM which will wedge up the process if you breathe too heavily when an applet is loading. However I usually run with JS disabled too for security reasons, because I dont trust there not to be other undiscovered flaws in the JS implementation. Netscape also doesnt play well with a full home directory partition and will frequently crash in that situation. Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message