Subject: Which NetScape?
To: Nickolas Ray Ellson <grimm@teleport.com>
From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@jaywon.pci.on.ca>
List: port-amiga
Date: 04/03/1996 20:44:38
>>>>> "Nickolas" == Nickolas Ray Ellson <grimm@teleport.com> writes:

Nickolas> Hi, Which Netscape (or any program for that matter) is
Nickolas> netbsd the most compatible with? I have seen versions for
Nickolas> BSDI and Sun Os 4.1.2. My UNIX book says that NetBSD is
Nickolas> based more on a BSD system, but also mentions Sun Os in the
Nickolas> same paragraph. Which would I choose?

	For the Amiga, you should be looking for Sun3 executables on
the net (or even better, NetBSD Sun3, or NetBSD Amiga).  You can't run
BSDI executables or Sun-sparc executables since they are for different
processors --- even if someone made it so that you could run them, it
would be gosh awful slow (Remember Pc-Task?).

	Anyways, I don't think that you'll find a version of Netscape
that you can run on NetBSD Amiga.  However, I have heard that there is
a Mosaic compiled for the Sun3 (Mosaic requires Motif, which is not
available for the NetBSD Amiga system, is available for SunOS-Sun3).
I hear that there's a binary out there somewhere.

	Eventually, there should be a 'lesstif' version of Mosaic
working --- but don't go holding your breath.

Dave.

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