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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!news.ci.com.au!wabbit.its.uow.edu.au!news.nsw.CSIRO.AU!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!swidir.switch.ch!swsbe6.switch.ch!surfnet.nl!sun4nl!Utrecht.NL.net!news.iaf.nl!news.es.iaf.nl!yedi!wilko From: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) Subject: Re: NEWBIE: Where to get a precompiled NETSCAPE2/MOSAIC browser ?? Organization: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands Message-ID: <Dn6wwu.Mt@yedi.iaf.nl> References: <JUERGEN.96Feb20142339@ipb9.rhein.de> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 18:34:06 GMT Lines: 25 juergen@ipb9.rhein.de (Juergen Skerhut) writes: >Hello ! >I have just discarded my Linux-System in favor of FreeBSD. >I installed FreeBSD from the current Walnut Creek CD-ROM and I do have >SLIP access. Unfortunately I am not able to use the installation >process of the ports collection as the "probed" ftp addresses do not >seem to contain the necessary files any more. >Mosaic (And I suspect Netscape) seems to need Motif to compile >correctly !? >Any hints where I can get the current Netscape browser Version >(Alternatively Mosaic 2.6) ? Just download the BSDI binary from netscape.com. That one works OK. Linux Netscape should also work provided you have the Linux emulation stuff loaded on your system. I never tried the latter though. And on Netscape source: forget it, Netscape is commercial software. WIlko