From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 28 19:47:10 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id TAA05935 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 19:47:10 -0800 Received: from star-gate.com (hasty.vip.best.com [204.156.141.143]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA05917; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 19:46:58 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by star-gate.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id TAA00389; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 19:40:54 GMT Message-Id: <199503281940.TAA00389@star-gate.com> X-Authentication-Warning: star-gate.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6alpha 2/16/95 To: jfieber@cs.smith.edu (John Fieber) cc: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: httpd as part of the system. In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 28 Mar 1995 22:07:10 EST." <199503290307.WAA27916@grendel.csc.smith.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 19:40:53 +0000 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>> John Fieber said: > Zowie! I stop reading mail for a couple days (vacation) and 160+ > plus messages about httpd, lynx and bloat. > > Jordan K. Hubbard writes: > > I would like to propose that we add the following two components to our > > system in an effort to both: > > > > A) Improve the infrastructure that our docs team can rely on. > > B) Make FreeBSD a better "out of box" Internet solution. > > > > 1. httpd. I don't really know which variant is best, though John Fieber > > (our Docmaster) has a preference which I'm perfectly happy to follow > > (I think it's the CERN httpd). > > > > 2. lynx. This would give users the ability to browse any HTML doc we > > supply. Mosaic will become an optional package for the X users. > > Since I pushed for using SGML for the Tutorials and FAQ, and > proposed an httpd/lynx combination the distribution, I suppose I > ought to say something. > > The reasons for using SGML as the base format for Tutorials and Hmmm.... Adobe struck a deal with Netscape so that Netscape can provide Acrobat embeded into Netscape. Now it seems like Adobe is almost giving away Acrobat at least that what the news stated. Amancio