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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!nntp.crl.com!crl.crl.com!not-for-mail From: ggrant@crl.com (Gary E. Grant) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Netscape and FreeBSD? Date: 10 Nov 1995 19:36:10 -0800 Organization: CRL Network Services (415) 705-6060 [Login: guest] Lines: 34 Message-ID: <4815na$qja@crl.crl.com> References: <clintdw-1011951158350001@10.0.2.15> <481082$5rq@sundog.tiac.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: crl.com In article <481082$5rq@sundog.tiac.net>, <rick@trystero.com> wrote: >In <clintdw-1011951158350001@10.0.2.15>, clintdw@interaccess.com (Clinton Wong) writes: >>I see that there's a generic 386 port of the Netscape browser for >>BSD systems. There's so many flavors of BSD that work on a 386.... >>does it work with FreeBSD? > >All the different releases of Netscape I've tried so far have. They're >actually ported to the BSDI BSD4.4, but they are binary compatible >with FreeBSD. > >That's good enough for now, but at some point in the future BSDI >and FreeBSD might diverge enough that they become incompatible, >and as long as there is no Motif for FreeBSD, Mosaic (source available) >cannot be compiled. I bought the SWiM Motif for FreeBSD 2.* works fine, Compiles Mosaic just fine.... Had to tweak it a little bit about the directory structure other that that I SWiM Motif works just fine. Costs about US$150.00 Gary :-) > >Anybody know any neat X-windows http browsers out there, that >don't rely on Motif? There is chimera in the ports directory...