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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!palmer.demon.co.uk!palmer.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: gary@palmer.demon.co.uk (Gary Palmer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,demon.tech.unix Subject: Re: Workstation Reading News Date: 1 Oct 1995 20:16:50 +0100 Organization: none Lines: 23 Message-ID: <44mpf3$4s8@palmer.demon.co.uk> References: <300871056wnr@falstaf.demon.co.uk> <44l78s$32q@palmer.demon.co.uk> <44m34d$dl@cucumber.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc.my.org X-NNTP-Posting-Host: palmer.demon.co.uk In article <44m34d$dl@cucumber.demon.co.uk>, Andrew Gabriel <sadg@cucumber.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Netscape (shareware, and not available for many platforms; I don't know > about FreeBSD not being a user myself) Netscape is overkill for most situations. Also, being statically linked it's a VM hog. If you want to go down that path, however, the netscape-v112-export.i386-unknown-bsd.tar.Z version works fine. >Personally, I think being threaded is more important than being X based; >there are non-X based readers you might consider too. I agree with this. Mind you, I am also a keyboard hacker. If you can't use keyboard shortcuts, I don't want to know :-) Gary -- FreeBSD Core Member E-Mail: Gary@Palmer.Demon.co.uk, gpalmer@FreeBSD.org