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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!bubba.ucc.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!lazrus.cca.rockwell.com!cacd.rockwell.com!newsrelay.iastate.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Web browers for FreeBSD Date: 3 Mar 1995 00:13:01 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Lines: 27 Message-ID: <3j5mue$eui@helena.MT.net> References: <3j30do$p0a@agate.berkeley.edu> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net In article <3j30do$p0a@agate.berkeley.edu>, D. Gerasimatos <dim@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> wrote: > >I am running FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 and I am looking for WWW browsers. I am >currently using chimera and a mosaic binary with static libs that's >sort of buggy. I'd like to try another mosaic binary. I'd also like >to try netscape, but I cannot find a working binary for FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 >(the generic bsd binary at ftp.mcom.com core dumps). You have to patch the 1.1.5 kernel to get netscape to work under 1.1.5.1. On a stock 1.1.5 system I think your choices are Mosaic, lynx, or W3 mode in XEmacs. >Also, I am wondering which browsers are available in binary form for >FreeBSD 2.0, as I am thinking of making the jump real soon now, and where >I can find these. Thanks for the help! My wife regularly uses netscape from home, and it works great under 2.0. I don't know what we would do w/out it. :-) Nate -- nate@FreeBSD.org | Do you think SRI cares what I say? They certainly nate@sneezy.sri.com | don't accept responsibility for my actions, so I work #: (406) 449-7662 | obviously don't represent them on Usenet. home #: (406) 443-7063 | *FreeBSD core member and all around tech. weenie*