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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!newsgate.cuhk.edu.hk!agate!not-for-mail From: tmonroe@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Anthony Monroe) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Netscape 2.02 or 3.0 on FreeBSD Date: 10 Nov 1996 17:08:15 -0800 Organization: Computer Science Undergraduate Association, UC Berkeley Lines: 25 Message-ID: <565u9v$38o@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> References: <32865667.232453159@news.qni.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.csua.berkeley.edu In article <32865667.232453159@news.qni.com>, John S Flowers <jflowers@maas-neotek.org> wrote: >Has anyone successfully rin Netscape (any version about 2.0) on FreeBSD 2.1.5 or >2.2? I've run 1.1, 2.0, and 3.01 on various versions of FreeBSD. >Netscape appears to run, but there are dozens of error messages that I get while >running it. I realize that Netscape was created for BSDi more than FreeBSD, but >surely there's a way to run it. Did you read the README file that came with your netscape tarball or did you just run it out of the box? There is some information there that will help you. >I cannot stand the speed of Mosaic and other http clients that run on FreeBSD. I can barely stand graphical browsers as it is; lynx is usually sufficient for my purposes. But I'm not nearly as much of a web-head as some other people. -- Tony Monroe, in a nice white wine sauce with couscous tmonroe@csua.berkeley.edu ObURL: http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~tmonroe Chief Squid, Tony's SquidWarez Incorporated / CSUA Secretary, Fall 1996 Proprietor of Dingbat Wizwarp's Transmutation Tavern and Alteration Apothecary