From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 7 22:47:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA24515 for stable-outgoing; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 22:47:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vinyl.quickweb.com (vinyl.quickweb.com [206.222.77.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA24508 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 22:47:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mark@localhost) by vinyl.quickweb.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) id BAA25399; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 01:43:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19970808014355.44693@vinyl.quickweb.com> Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 01:43:55 -0400 From: Mark Mayo To: chad@anasazi.com Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape native version References: <21563.863844380@time.cdrom.com> <9708080506.AA27349@chad.anasazi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <9708080506.AA27349@chad.anasazi.com>; from Chad R. Larson on Thu, Aug 07, 1997 at 10:06:37PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, Aug 07, 1997 at 10:06:37PM -0700, Chad R. Larson wrote: > Jordan recently sent e-mail announcing that Netscape has a native > implementation of Navigator. > > Actually, it was of Communicator. And, perhaps he should have mentioned > it needs to run under 2.2 as it was linked dynamically and has VD > (Version Discrepency) on the g++, c and stdc shared libraries. Anyone else notice that it often just refuses to die?? I'd say about 60% of the time for me, when I close it by selecting "Exit" from the menu, or close the window using the window manager, Netscape disapears from the screen, but a process list shows me it's still there, eating up 20MB or RAM and burning away my CPU. 'kill -9' is your friend.. Also, the java performance just seems HORRIBLE with the FReeBSD version.. Idon't know what they're doing, but for some reason the FreeBSD version runs about 1000% slower than the Linux version of Communicator (and the BSDI 3.0 series). Finally, Communicator locked up on me last night - actuallly it locked up and took out my system with it.. complete freeze. X was still "displaying", but the keyboard and mouse were dead. The machine wouldn't even answer pings... complete freeze. Needless to say, since I've been running FreeBSD (almost 2 years) this is the first time this has ever happened to me. Lock up. Not even a crash. Nothing is worse, and horrible images of win95 were filling my head. Solution: rm -rf /usr/local/netscape mount /cdrom pkg_add /cdrom/packages/All/slynx-2.7.tgz Communicator may have a pretty interface, but it's a behemouth, resource eating, system crashing, poor performing monster. Surely they can do better... -Mark > > -crl > -- > Chad R. Larson (CRL22) Brother, can you paradigm? > 602-870-3330 chad@anasazi.com chad@anasaz.UUCP chad@dcfinc.com > Anasazi, Inc. - 7500 North Dreamy Draw Drive, Suite 120, Phoenix, Az 85020 -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Mayo mark@quickweb.com RingZero Comp. http://vinyl.quickweb.com/mark finger mark@quickweb.com for my PGP key and GCS code ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- University degrees are a bit like adultery: you may not want to get involved with that sort of thing, but you don't want to be thought incapable. -Sir Peter Imbert