From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 19 15:26:43 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id PAA03673 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 19 Sep 1995 15:26:43 -0700 Received: from covina.lightside.com (covina.lightside.com [198.81.209.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA03661 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 1995 15:26:39 -0700 Received: by covina.lightside.com (Smail3.1.28.1 #6) id m0svB7I-0009YIC; Tue, 19 Sep 95 15:26 PDT Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 15:26:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Jake Hamby To: Olof Johansson cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Guess we don't need to port Java! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 19 Sep 1995, Olof Johansson wrote: > On Tue, 19 Sep 1995, Jake Hamby wrote: > > > Yesterday, Netscape Communications announced version 2.0 of Netscape > > Navigator, which will have a lot of neat new features, including Java > > support! The first beta version should be available from their web site > > next week (including a BSDI UNIX version). Looks like we won't need to > > worry about porting HotJava to FreeBSD after all. :-) Anyway, here's > > the URL for Netscape's announcement for those who want to read about the new > > features: > > > > http://www.mcom.com/comprod/products/navigator/version_2.0/index.html > > I hope that won't be BSDI as in BSDI 2.0... > > > -Olof I believe Netscape 2.0 will work under BSDI 1.x or 2.0. At any rate, Netscape 1.1 works fine under FreeBSD 2.0.5 (and 2.1.0-stable). Even though a Linux version isn't specifically listed, since there is a Linux version of Netscape 1.1, my guess is that Netscape 2.0 will be available for that platform as well. ---Jake Hamby jehamby@lightside.com