Re: netscape woes

[Jonathan Crowe <jcrowe@eskimo.com>]

Ed Cogburn wrote:

>
>
>         Question #1:  The location /usr/local is reserved (by the Filesystem
> Standard) for packages/programs you the local admin/user installs
> yourself.  These programs are not known by the Debian/dpkg system.  dpkg
> is not allowed to do anything in /usr/local, thus it must install the
> things it deals with (*.deb) elsewhere.
>

Ok... That makes sense.   Thanks for the answer.


> Question #2:  Alas, Netscape Communicator is a *bloated pig* of a
> program.

Humm......  Perhaps I will downgrade to a lower version number of netscape.   It seems that
every level ( at least in the windows world)  has gottin a little bit bigger and a little
bit slower.

I have a couple of other browsers that were automaticlly installed when I installed debian,
like gzilla and areana but they don't seem to be ready for prime time. They seem
consistantly die about 2 minutes after I start using them.   Too bad really as I kind of
like gzilla.

Pity the lynx people have resisted putting out a graphical version.  Their browser remains
stable and fast and they probably would do a good job of it.