From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 7 16:52:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA22765 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 16:52:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fledge.watson.org (root@FLEDGE.RES.CMU.EDU [128.2.91.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA22757 for ; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 16:52:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA06695 for ; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 19:51:59 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 19:51:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org Reply-To: Robert Watson To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Netscape: Linux a top priority (news.com article) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,20863,00.html?st.ne.ni.lh Quotes Netscape people indicating that the Suitespot server is being developed for Linux -- and by the sounds of it, not even as a farm-out-to-third-party-vendor as is done with BSD/OS (something that irked me, as BSDI is a version or so behind Netscape's releases). I wonder if we could pursuade Netscape to write on FreeBSD also? I know of a number of companies who would be interested in paying for Netscape's servers on FreeBSD :). I also wonder what it will take to get the FreeBSD release to appear on Netscape's standard list of clients, and not always in their development directory? These things are small, but they do make us look a little like a second-class operating system in the eyes of Netscape. And given that FreeBSD makes such a great network server platform, that is a little upsetting. Robert N Watson ---- Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ Trusted Information Systems http://www.tis.com/ SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message