From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Apr 25 06:09:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA22871 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 06:09:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from terror.hungry.com (toshok@terror.hungry.com [199.181.107.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA22866 for ; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 06:09:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toshok@Hungry.COM) Received: (from toshok@localhost) by terror.hungry.com (8.9.0.Beta5/8.9.0.Beta5) id GAA27876; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 06:09:19 -0700 (PDT) To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Andreessen: Linux use growing References: <199804250009.RAA04654@rah.star-gate.com> From: Christoph Toshok Date: 25 Apr 1998 06:09:19 -0700 In-Reply-To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com's message of 24 Apr 1998 17:13:25 -0700 Message-ID: Lines: 26 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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