From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon May 3 7: 4:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDCB015136 for ; Mon, 3 May 1999 07:04:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA11884; Mon, 3 May 1999 10:04:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id KAA94384; Mon, 3 May 1999 10:04:38 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 10:04:37 -0400 (EDT) To: Thomas Pornin Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compiling XFree on an alpha.. In-Reply-To: <19990503083942.B20136@bolet.ens.fr> References: <199905021908.MAA19491@mail.cybcon.com> <19990503083942.B20136@bolet.ens.fr> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14125.44049.845050.285497@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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