From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 27 02:13:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA16540 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Feb 1997 02:13:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from obiwan.aceonline.com.au (obiwan.aceonline.com.au [203.103.90.67]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA16529 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 1997 02:13:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (adrian@localhost) by obiwan.aceonline.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id EAA07376; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 04:43:34 +0800 (WST) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 04:43:33 +0800 (WST) From: Adrian Chadd To: jack cc: Brandon Gillespie , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No BSD Communicator 4.0? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > With the beta release of communicator I was disappointed to not find a BSD > > version in the unix list. Anybody know if this is a permanent thing from > > now on, or if it is just temporary? > > It's there, Unix BSD/386. I tried it for about 10 minutes. Reminds me > too much of M$'s IE, and after jumping through every hoop I could think of > I still couldn't get it to do java. > Same - I remember someone saying to run it in 8bpp or 24bpp (not 16bpp), and its just not working (it gives a nice "Floating point exception" error, helpful?). Anyone got it working at all? But other than that, it looks very nice IMHO. Looks exactly like the windows version, and I think people will like it (its a good thing when soemone walks up to your unix box, loads netscape and plays, not realising they aren't in Win95 :) Cya. Adrian Chadd