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From: Glen Pill <glenp@rmit.edu.au>
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps
Subject: Re: Netscape on NetBSD
Date: 27 Nov 1994 23:59:26 GMT
Organization: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.
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peterb@telerama.lm.com (Peter Berger) wrote:
>
> Running the BSDI Netscape binary on NetBSD 1.0, my system experiences "hangs"
> of up to 30 seconds where -nothing- happens -- even a vmstat just stops
> reporting.  Anyone ever see this before?
> 
> I've seen similar behavior when running xfontsel, but I'm not convinced the 
> two phenomena are related.
> 
> This is with XFree86 v. 3.1, by the way.

I've noticed an interesting phenonema with NetBSD 0.9a and Xfree86 v2.x

I get total Seg faults when I change the font size from the options
menu. :)  It restarts happily, so it's no big deal.  Just an annoyance.

But I certainly wouldn't pay for a program that contained such bugs. :)

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Glen.