From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 16 01:26:29 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B45316A41F for ; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 01:26:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from quakenet1@optusnet.com.au) Received: from mail01.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail01.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AF0E43D45 for ; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 01:26:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from quakenet1@optusnet.com.au) Received: from [10.0.0.3] (c220-239-27-192.belrs4.nsw.optusnet.com.au [220.239.27.192]) by mail01.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j7G1QQcL002432 for ; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 11:26:26 +1000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v733) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <825A57F3-731D-4FE5-AB72-1F3512D42A44@optusnet.com.au> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Jerahmy Pocott Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 11:26:26 +1000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.733) Subject: Re: Question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 01:26:29 -0000 On 15/08/2005, at 11:04 AM, jon freddy wrote: > When I get my new computer and I am going to run > FreeBSD, also, I want to still run the browser > Firefox. But if you go to Firefox's website it also > lists other OS, but not FreeBSD. But I see that a lot > of my friends that run FreeBSD use firefox. Would I > install the Linux package because it is also a Unix System? > The systems you see on the firefox website are just binary packages they have made for various systems. It is actually better to compile the source yourself on your own system in a lot of cases, since you can specify optimizations that they probably didn't put into their binary packages so as to make them work on lots of systems.. Just about every single application you ever want to use can be found in the ports collection, which if installed is found in /usr/ports by default.. The very lastest build of firefox may not be in a port yet (is it?) in which case if you really want it you can just download the source from their website and compile it (they probably have instructions on how to do this but generally it is just a matter of decompressing the archive and running 'configure' then 'make install' in the base directory of the archive). The linux binary package possibly will also work if you have installed the linux compatibility stuff and have the module loaded, but it is better to use native where possible!