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From: mld@netcom.com (Matthew Deter)
Subject: Netscape & FreeBSD
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Date: Tue, 8 Nov 1994 06:55:18 GMT
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Mosaic Communications, a company founded by one of the major NCSA
Mosaic designers, has recently beta-released their "Netscape" WWW
client. Netscape is free for personal use (they plan to cash in on
the cool server side and on salling clients to corporations.)
Because Netscape is commercial, it is released in binary form only.
There are Mac, 'doze, and a variety of Unix versions: DEC Alpha,
SPARC, HP PA-RISC, IBM POWER (AIX), Linux. Maybe a few others that I
don't recall.
However, there is no version for FreeBSD! I can't see the port to
FreeBSD being much work from the SunOS version...
If you want to encourage a port to FreeBSD, I urge you to connect to
www.mcom.com and leave an appropriate comment.
DISCLAIMER: I am in no way affiliated with Mosaic Communcaitions! I
simply want their new Netscape tool to run on my FreeBSD box. Maybe
if enough people ask, MCOM will do a port. Netscape is definitely a
feather in the Linux cap...
--
$$ Matthew Deter -- mld@netcom.com
$$$$
$$ "Whatever road I take, the guiding star is within me; the guiding
$$$$ star and the loadstone which point the way. They point in but
$$ one direction. They point to me."
$$$$
$$ -- from the novel _Anthem_ by Ayn Rand