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From: Con Sultant <jkane@execpc.com>
Subject: Re: Netscape 2.02 or 3.0 on FreeBSD
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Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 23:07:27 GMT
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John S Flowers wrote:
>
> Has anyone successfully rin Netscape (any version about 2.0) on FreeBSD 2.1.5 or
> 2.2?
>
> Netscape appears to run, but there are dozens of error messages that I get while
> running it. I realize that Netscape was created for BSDi more than FreeBSD, but
> surely there's a way to run it.
The only "problem" I have is performance. I am am using 3.0 and it
takes up to 2 minutes just to start up! Once it gets running, it seems
OK, but that wait for it to fire off is boring. It dials out right
away, so I know It did start. But, then I have to wait too long for the
screen to show up on the screen. I usually don't have something else to
do to fill in that time, or I would.
Is this similiar to others? I have a 486/66 with 32 meg of memory, and
two 24 meg swap spaces on two different spindles. I run a couple of
xterms a clock and xload. That is all the machine has to do besides
iij-ppp for dial out, and Cern Http for proxying to other machines that
are not turned on during the test.y
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