Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 16:36:03 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> To: Imre Oolberg <imre@eenet.ee> Cc: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My friends were amazed at FreeBSD... Message-ID: <20020524163603.L81843@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <20020524164101.P51722-100000@muheleja.eenet.ee>; from imre@eenet.ee on Fri, May 24, 2002 at 04:43:49PM %2B0300 References: <20020524143036.C67484@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20020524164101.P51722-100000@muheleja.eenet.ee>
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> 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
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