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Date:      Fri, 17 May 1996 18:21:53 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Which Netscape? (fwd)
Message-ID:  <199605171621.SAA17878@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>

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I forward this to the hackers list not knowing where else
would be a place for this so excuse me if this might not be the right
place.

I found this interesting since running a linux netscape binary
false the statistics.

Running a BSDI binary would do either. So are there any measures
to tell them about a growing FreeBSD community?

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
----- Forwarded message from John Maier -----

>From owner-netbsd-help@netbsd.org Fri May 17 17:47:54 1996
Message-Id: <01BB43D4.32D57BC0@johnam.datastorm.com>
From: John Maier <johnam@beta.datastorm.com>
To: "'Brett Lymn'" <blymn@awadi.com.au>
Cc: "netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG" <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
Subject: RE: Which Netscape?
Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 09:35:32 -0500
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That's not true.  The Atlas Netscape build for BSDI supports
Java and works just fine under NetBSD.

Also, from what I gather, BSDI binaries execute more efficiently
than Linux binaries under NetBSD.  So avoid the Linux Netscape.

Also, an extra reason to avoid using the Linux Netscape is for 
statistical purposes.  Everytime you connect to a WWW you'll be
telling the site you support Linux!  Currently then BSDI Netscape
can't tell it is running on NetBSD 1.1 (without patching), but at
you wont be declaring a false support.
jam

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From: 	Brett Lymn[SMTP:blymn@awadi.com.AU]
Sent: 	Friday, May 17, 1996 8:20 AM
To: 	thorpej@nas.nasa.gov
Cc: 	netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG
Subject: 	Re: Which Netscape?

According to Jason Thorpe:
>
>You can use the BSD/OS 1.x or Linux binaries.  The Linux requires extra 
>setup, i.e. installing Linux shared libraries on your system.  See the 
>compat_linux(8) manual page.
>

FWIW if you want java with Netscape 2 then you need to use the linux binary.

-- 
Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, AWA Defence Industries
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