From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 24 16:43:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail19a.dulles19-verio.com (mail19a.dulles19-verio.com [161.58.134.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BBA3E37B403 for ; Fri, 24 May 2002 16:43:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.pythonemproject.com (198.104.176.109) by mail19a.dulles19-verio.com (RS ver 1.0.63s) with SMTP id 0102172075 for ; Fri, 24 May 2002 19:41:59 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3CEECD6A.5E9BB6A6@pythonemproject.com> Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 16:31:54 -0700 From: rob X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "chat@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: My friends were amazed at FreeBSD... References: <20020524143036.C67484@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20020524164101.P51722-100000@muheleja.eenet.ee> <20020524163603.L81843@lpt.ens.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Loop-Detect: 1 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > > By the way, being a admirerer of FreeBSD i got a following question, is > > there any good browser for FreeBSD which doest expect system to have Linux > > emu? Netscape, Mozilla, Opera the all need that emu? > > Mozilla works fine natively, except the plugins. There is now a > native java plugin but not in binary form, you need 700 MB disk space > and a few hours to compile it. I haven't tried it. There is also the > GPL flash plugin in the ports, and for other plugins there's > ports/www/plugger, neither of which I've tried either. Personally I > see nothing wrong in using linux emulation. In fact I have linux as > dual-boot on that machine, so I just mount the linux partition as > /compat/linux, make a few symlinks for mozilla and away I go (but > mostly I use konqueror natively under FreeBSD, I don't need plugins). > I totally abandoned netscape 4.x around 6 months ago; I'd mostly > abandoned it over a year ago. > > > > But they were all blown away by how fast Netscape on FreeBSD worked. My > > > machine blew away a P3-500 running Windows. I'm sure having 160 megs of > > > RAM didn't hurt, > > That could be the major factor, actually. A machine with only 16 MB > of RAM will crawl with most of today's software and desktop > environments, and with Windows too, no matter how fast the CPU is. > Also, a browser is hardly a test of speed. I've used netscape 4.x on > a 486 with linux, it's not too bad. > > - Rahul > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message I really like Galeon, but it doesn't have mail or news. What impresses me the most about FreeBSD are the people involved. I've been trying out some Linux distos but I always get turned off by the mailing lists. That was not true 5 years ago when I was running SuSE. Now, I've gotten a "haircut" on the OpenBSD list from Theo, but for good reasons :) I just find the Linux lists arrogant. Rob. -- ----------------------------- The Numeric Python EM Project www.pythonemproject.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message