From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 12 14:31:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (law2-f250.hotmail.com [216.32.181.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A979537B42C for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 14:31:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 14:31:40 -0700 Received: from 63.77.219.1 by lw2fd.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 21:31:40 GMT X-Originating-IP: [63.77.219.1] From: "Kenneth Mays" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netscape/Linux on FreeBSD an other horrors ... Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 17:31:40 EDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 Sep 2000 21:31:40.0461 (UTC) FILETIME=[D6A35DD0:01C01D00] Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I thought there was at one timeframe but maybe it was how they licensed the product and the sales price between the two. Now that I am going back on my Solaris days, there was that nasty font scaling issue and a few other bugs that might relate to this whole thing. You had to make some chnages to X configuration files missing the font changes. Don't know why Netscape didn't put this in the setup themselves (something about the build?!?) and Sun had you add some files to get Java working correctly with the JDK/JRE. It was a few issues like that causing Netscape to crash. I had it working fine on a Solaris test box after screwing around with it for a day. I'm not saying it was "bug-free" but it didn't crash everyday - it was more like a random issue on certain sites. It seemed like an Internet (slow day?!?) issue so can't point the finger at either. I thought is was mainly how Windows platforms have certain APIs and DLLs installed to help out with certain browser issues. I had to patch Solaris to get this all working and changing a few files around. Not your normal end-users dream (LOL!). By the way, I've seen issues with Netscape on Windows platforms crashing the whole system so no one has escaped successfully from bad coding (if that). I'm wondering if its why Netscape hasn't release a major upgrade yet. If its sloppy or bad code somewhere they may want to fix it before the major upgrade. Otherwise I may have to look at the Amiga browsers to port to FreeBSD! ;o) Ken >From: Peter Radcliffe >Reply-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org >To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Netscape/Linux on FreeBSD an other horrors ... >Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 13:44:24 -0400 > >Kenneth Mays probably said: > > Workstation and Server versions of NT and Sun with Solaris. I don't see >many > >An incidental correction, there is no difference between the "Server" >and "Desktop" versions of Solaris beyond the name on the CD, which CDs >are supplied with the OS media, licensing and what gets put in one >file on disk telling you which media set you installed from. > >The OS is exactly the same. > >P. > >-- >pir pir@pir.net pir@net.tufts.edu > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message