Re: Graphical Browser for Sparc/Linux
Folks,
An update: Downloaded navigator-v45-export.sparc-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz
from netscape. Installed straight out, and seems to be working well.
I will post any thing interesting. Kernel is stock debian 2.0.35.
On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Jules Bean wrote:
> --On Fri, Nov 27, 1998 4:41 pm +0530 "Sanjeev Gupta"
> <ghane@arjun.eurolink.stpn.soft.net> wrote:
>
> >
> > Folks,
> >
> > Got a SPARCclassic running sid. Running well. Stock kernel 2.0.35, no
> > recompiles neccessary (actually just apt, but that was because I paniced).
> >
> > What I need is a graphical (read: netscape) for the machine. Then to
> > place it in the Library as a browser. Point out excellent security and
> > stability on a `public' machine. Accept pats-on-back. Smile :-)
> >
> > Grail is non-frames friendly.
> >
> > Is there a mozilla for Sparc/Linux? Where?
>
> There are navigators compiled for Sparc/Linux, but they don't work on
> debian, and I haven't had a chance to investigate why not.
>
> Mozilla certainly should compile - but you need to find a stable source-code
> snapshot, and several hundred megabytes of disk space to compile it. Also,
> I suspect you won't find it sufficiently stable for your purposes.
>
> Unfortunately, no other browser is even close in functionality. Last I
> checked, the closest is probably amaya, which AFAIK has the distinction of
> being the only other to do frames. The most promising is mnemonic
> (www.mnemonic.org) which is close, I believe to a public release.
>
> The w3 emacs mode is also quite good :-)
>
> Jules
>
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