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From: kenh@entropic.com (Ken Hornstein)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps
Subject: Re: Netscape and NetBSD/i386 1.0?
Date: 17 Jan 1995 10:16:39 -0500
Organization: Entropic Research Lab, Washington, DC.
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In article <3fcgbc$jim@charnel.ecst.CSUChico.EDU>,
Shawn Brown <shawnb@ecst.csuchico.edu> wrote:
>Is there any way to run the Netscape binary for i386-unknown-bsd under NetBSD
>1.0? 

It works fine for me - make sure you have "options COMPAT_NOMID" in your
kernel config file (the generic kernels have that already).

>I've been very happy with NetBSD so far, but it seems to seriously lack the
>package support that FreeBSD has.  Is this going to change?

There is some recent work in this direction.  Hopefully more packages will be
appearing soon.

--Ken