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From: Chris Larson <larson@cs.utk.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Java and Netscape:  work under FreeBSD?
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 01:22:21 -0500
Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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Les_Hartzman@ wrote:
> 
> If the answer is obvious, please forgive.  I'm not a regular Unix user and
> am waiting for my copy of 2.1 to arrive.
> 
> So, does Netscape run under FreeBSD?  Is there a port of Java and the JDK
> to FreeBSD?  Are the plans for these if support doesn't already exist?



Somebody has gotten much of Java working on NetBSD. FreeBSD shouldn't be far
behind once that is done. And yes, Netscape works. Get the i386-unknownBSD
 UNIX version.

chris