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From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Web browers for FreeBSD
Date: 3 Mar 1995 00:13:01 GMT
Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana
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References: <3j30do$p0a@agate.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com>
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In article <3j30do$p0a@agate.berkeley.edu>,
D. Gerasimatos <dim@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
>
>I am running FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 and I am looking for WWW browsers. I am
>currently using chimera and a mosaic binary with static libs that's
>sort of buggy. I'd like to try another mosaic binary. I'd also like
>to try netscape, but I cannot find a working binary for FreeBSD 1.1.5.1
>(the generic bsd binary at ftp.mcom.com core dumps).

You have to patch the 1.1.5 kernel to get netscape to work under 1.1.5.1.
On a stock 1.1.5 system I think your choices are Mosaic, lynx, or W3 mode
in XEmacs.

>Also, I am wondering which browsers are available in binary form for
>FreeBSD 2.0, as I am thinking of making the jump real soon now, and where
>I can find these. Thanks for the help!

My wife regularly uses netscape from home, and it works great under 2.0.
I don't know what we would do w/out it. :-)


Nate
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