From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 1 5:17:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from atkielski.com (atkielski.com [161.58.232.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F22DC37B401 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 05:17:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by atkielski.com (8.11.6) id fA1DGxb09716; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 14:17:00 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <00d401c162d7$89c53ce0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "FreeBSD Questions" References: <00d001c162d3$334891e0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Subject: Re: Re[2]: Tiny starter configuration for FreeBSD Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 14:17:18 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message