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Date:      Thu, 1 Nov 2001 14:17:18 +0100
From:      "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com>
To:        "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Re[2]: Tiny starter configuration for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <00d401c162d7$89c53ce0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
References:  <00d001c162d3$334891e0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>

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Ted writes:

> Netscape is an X client program so to run it you
> have to run both an X server and the X client program,
> Netscape.

There's always Lynx.  I even run Lynx on Windows sometimes, because it is very
fast and very secure.

If this is Netscape 4.x we are talking about, it is so bug-laden that I wouldn't
run it on any platform.  Netscape 6.x is only a very slight improvement.

I note that Opera is available for Linux and Solaris.  Does this mean it would
run on FreeBSD, too, or not?  I recall reading about Linux binary compatibility
something, but I didn't install (I think) in order to keep things simple.

> Actually the indications I'm seeing is that the
> Linux name is rapidly acquiring more marketing muscle
> than UNIX.

Linux has received a great deal of unjustified hype.  I really do not understand
why anyone would choose Linux over a more complete version of UNIX
(oops--UNIX-like) OS.  Since Linux apparently only defines the kernel, users
will inevitably be locked into a single vendor eventually--in fact, that seems
to be happening with Red Hat now.

> I can forsee a time in the future when the UNIX
> licensees are going to be advertising that they
> can run Linux software first ...

So will FreeBSD run Linux stuff?


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