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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!news.alpha.net!news.mathworks.com!hookup!swrinde!pipex!uunet!epiwrl.entropic.com!usenet 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. Lines: 15 Message-ID: <3fgn0n$c99@epiwrl.entropic.com> References: <3fcgbc$jim@charnel.ecst.CSUChico.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: epiwrl.entropic.com 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