Subject: Re: Netscape Communicator & NetBSD...
To: Brian Stark <bstark@siemens-psc.com>
From: Frank van der Linden <frank@wins.uva.nl>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 10/20/1999 22:31:17
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 03:17:05PM -0500, Brian Stark wrote:
> Does anyone have Netscape Communicator 4.7 running on NetBSD 1.4.1/i386?
> I would like to get Communicator running on my system but each time I have
> tried getting what is in the package system (4.51) to run it never does.
> 
> Also, does it matter what platform version of Communicator I try to
> run? I know NetBSD supports emulation for some other operating systems,
> and checking the information at netscape.com shows versions available
> for Linux 2.0, Linux 2.0 (glibc), Solaris, BSDI, and FreeBSD among 
> others.

I run the 4.7-linux20-glibc version. Use the suse_linux package
from pkgsrc to set up the Linux emulation environment. It's been
pretty stable for me (as stable as you can expect from communicator).

- Frank