Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 08:36:03 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD emulation for Linux Message-ID: <36F8A3F3.1E66A72F@uk.radan.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9903231226240.1104-100000@freebie.dp.ny.frb.org> <19990324004932.A18040@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
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Nik Clayton wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 12:28:19PM -0500, Zippy wrote:
> > **** Netscape has shown interest in officially supporting a native FreeBSD
> > port. All we have to do is get people to send a polite, short email to
> > nav-support@netscape.com with this request. One per account, please --
> > we don't want to kill them with spam. ****
>
> I keep seeing this come up.
>
> A native FreeBSD port of what?
>
> % cd /usr/local/lib/netscape
> % file navigator-4.5.bin
> FreeBSD/i386 compact demand paged dynamically linked executable
>
Yes, but if you go to Netscape's ftp site (can't remember the exact
URL off the top of my head) to d/l it you find the FreeBSD version in
the "unsupported" sub-directory so Netscape don't actually
maintain/develop it.
> N
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