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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!howland.erols.net!math.ohio-state.edu!newsfeed.acns.nwu.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!news From: Usman Muzaffar <usman@nwu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: browser Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 13:23:16 -0600 Organization: Northwestern University Lines: 47 Message-ID: <33285424.7BE@nwu.edu> References: <3326A56F.11D3@dimail.epfl.ch> <5g6e29$3se$3@vishnu.jussieu.fr> <3327B264.6E4E@dimail.epfl.ch> Reply-To: usman@nwu.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: lrc139.ghsl.nwu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) To: Fabien Wernly <fwernly@dimail.epfl.ch> CC: usman@nwu.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5616 Fabien Wernly wrote: > > Manuel BOUYER wrote: > > > > Fabien Wernly (fwernly@dimail.epfl.ch) wrote: > > > What's the best www browser I can compile on netbsd? > > Mosaic. You'll need the lesstiff too. > > Where can I get it? > What's lesstiff? OK, so the browser situation on NetBSD is this way, IMHO: 1. lynx ; this is a superb text only browser, and it compile right out of the box, as someone said above 2. NCSA Mosaic ; this was one of the first browsers that made the WWW so big; it is no longer under development. No precompiled binaries are on their site, so you have to go with source. Their source requires the Motif toolkit, which is (as I understand, please correct if wrong) a commercial product ( and so unlikely that it's on a NetBSD box, since most users running NetBSD tend to enjoy free software more :)) Motif is basically a set of graphics library routines that make apps that use them look pretty - X itself comes with the the Athena toolkit, which is not so pretty but, hey, it's free. Lesstif (pun on Motif) is a free Motif clone which is supposed to be 100% compatible. So the "best" browser you can probably do for NetBSD is NCSA Mosaic (http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/) which needs Lesstif (www.lesstif.org, and the organization developing, the Hungry Programmsers, www.hungry.com, I think) 3. The third alternative, which I'm actually running right now, is a graphical but no-frills browser which doesn't need Motif or Lesstif or any toolkit other than the one X comes with: Xaw (aw for Athena widgets, I think). It's called Chimera, available at: http://www.unlv.edu/chimera/. It's fast and low-memory, and an excellent choice if you need graphics but don't want something quite as big as Mosaic. There are others, but I think these cover any category of performance you're likely to want. Look at the FAQ for the comp.infosystems.www.browsers.x newsgroup (hope I have that right) good luck, (and let me/us know if you have any unusual successes) usman usman@nwu.edu