Re: some problems on recent installation(sid)

[Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>]

From: Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
Subject: Re: some problems on recent installation(sid)
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 03:03:27 -0800

> On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 05:21:23PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> > 
> > Next and last, is there no netscape in Debian/PowerPC?
> 
> there is, but its old.  4.60 (or so) in potato and
> 4.70 in unstable. i think

It seems netscape-base-4 4.77-2 and netscape-*-resource-477
etc. exist but no netscape-smotif* at all in unstable.

> suffice it to say netscape 4 for powerpc is old and full of many
> security holes. its time to move on and install mozilla, 0.9 is quite
> usable (more so if you use galeon instead of mozilla directly). 
> 
> > I heard that a distribution based on RedHat has netscape
> > for PowerPC.
> 
> they have the same as debian does, old insecure buggy packages.
> netscape will not build current releases for powerpc.  since
> netscape is 100% proprietary nobody can change that except netscape.  

I see and thanks for your kind explanation.  I will install
mozilla.

Best Regards,			2001.5.18

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 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>
 Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.