Date: 25 Apr 1998 06:09:19 -0700 From: Christoph Toshok <toshok@Hungry.COM> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Andreessen: Linux use growing Message-ID: <m2zphaujy8.fsf@terror.hungry.com> In-Reply-To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com's message of 24 Apr 1998 17:13:25 -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980424165500.25808B-100000@keaggy.canonware.com> <199804250009.RAA04654@rah.star-gate.com>
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hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) writes: > > Well, it was a happy to coincidence . Lets see if the netscape developer > steps in and can tells us what motivated him to release the netscape > browser for FreeBSD. As far as I can recollect it was a single developer > responsible for the port and it appeared that he was acting alone. yeah, it was me :) I worked alone. got a pc for home to do netscape work on. i run freebsd on everything else, so I installed it there as well. port was done in a day or two. then i had what i wanted -- a native freebsd version (so I didn't have to use the bsdi or linux versions). told the build/release guys and they got another pc at netscape. I installed freebsd on it, and it was added to the release builds. The only reason linux has a status other than "development" is because netscape gets money for it. we don't get OEM money for the freebsd version, so it'll probably never move out of the development directory. I myself don't mind this one bit -- it crashes so much less than the irix or solaris versions of the navigator, which is odd, considering that's what most developers at netscape use. christoph To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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