Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 12:21:22AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 10:49:54AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 10:23:01AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > Tell me, you seriously think that there is a libc5 program still around
> > > that uses DRI ? Hell, libc5 was abandoned well before DRI even existed.
> >
> > the only libc5 program I do use is netscape 4.77 because it is compatible to
> > some pages where mozilla/opera/konquerror fails. I would hate to reboot, to
> > just open that page.
>
> Tried mozilla recently? It's a thousand times better than Netscape 4.7x
> was... Although I've still had it vanish a couple of times recently. It
> doesn't hang like NS though.
There are some sites that still require Netscape 4.77. A good example is
an online banking site here in Belgium, which 'supports' Linux, but you
need to use Netscape to be able to use that site.
--
Wouter Verhelst
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