Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 10:04:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Thomas Pornin <pornin@bolet.ens.fr> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compiling XFree on an alpha.. Message-ID: <14125.44049.845050.285497@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <19990503083942.B20136@bolet.ens.fr> References: <199905021908.MAA19491@mail.cybcon.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905022031590.555-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> <19990503083942.B20136@bolet.ens.fr>
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Thomas Pornin writes: > On Sun, May 02, 1999 at 08:32:47PM +0100, Doug Rabson wrote: > > Fair enough. I don't think XF86Setup and netscape work with Linux/alpha > > either... > > I do not know for XF86Setup (my first XFree installation was back in > the days where XF86Setup did not exist, and the Xconfigure thing would > not work, therefore I write XF86Config by hand) but you may run the OSF > Netscape on Linux/Alpha. I have a fully functional Communicator 4.51 > and it is stable. This requires the OSF shared libs, though (or maybe FreeBSD is also capable of running Netscape, and other DU binaries such as Mathematica and S-Plus under the osf/1 compatibility module. You can fetch it from: ftp://ftp.cs.duke.edu/pub/gallatin/osf1.tar.gz Be warned that I haven't had much time to play with it since December, so it might need a little tweaking to get it working again with -current. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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