From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 24 7:36: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C29E537B409 for ; Fri, 24 May 2002 07:36:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corto.lpt.ens.fr (corto.lpt.ens.fr [129.199.122.2]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id g4OEa3p74934 ; Fri, 24 May 2002 16:36:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: from (rsidd@localhost) by corto.lpt.ens.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id QAA02142 ; Fri, 24 May 2002 16:36:03 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 16:36:03 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Imre Oolberg Cc: j mckitrick , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My friends were amazed at FreeBSD... Message-ID: <20020524163603.L81843@lpt.ens.fr> Mail-Followup-To: Imre Oolberg , j mckitrick , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020524143036.C67484@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20020524164101.P51722-100000@muheleja.eenet.ee> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020524164101.P51722-100000@muheleja.eenet.ee>; from imre@eenet.ee on Fri, May 24, 2002 at 04:43:49PM +0300 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > By the way, being a admirerer of FreeBSD i got a following question, is > there any good browser for FreeBSD which doest expect system to have Linux > emu? Netscape, Mozilla, Opera the all need that emu? Mozilla works fine natively, except the plugins. There is now a native java plugin but not in binary form, you need 700 MB disk space and a few hours to compile it. I haven't tried it. There is also the GPL flash plugin in the ports, and for other plugins there's ports/www/plugger, neither of which I've tried either. Personally I see nothing wrong in using linux emulation. In fact I have linux as dual-boot on that machine, so I just mount the linux partition as /compat/linux, make a few symlinks for mozilla and away I go (but mostly I use konqueror natively under FreeBSD, I don't need plugins). I totally abandoned netscape 4.x around 6 months ago; I'd mostly abandoned it over a year ago. > > But they were all blown away by how fast Netscape on FreeBSD worked. My > > machine blew away a P3-500 running Windows. I'm sure having 160 megs of > > RAM didn't hurt, That could be the major factor, actually. A machine with only 16 MB of RAM will crawl with most of today's software and desktop environments, and with Windows too, no matter how fast the CPU is. Also, a browser is hardly a test of speed. I've used netscape 4.x on a 486 with linux, it's not too bad. - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message