Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!)
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 21:28, Daniel Barclay wrote:
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> > From: Adam Shand <larry@alaska.net>
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> >if you are running a system
> > with libc5 or glibc 2.0 you are fine and won't have any problems with
> > netscape.
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> No, no, no. Netscape can be just as horribly unstable on glibc 2.0
> systems. I know. I suffer from it every day.
I hate to rain on your parade, but LOTS of people run Netscape 4.5 and
4.6 with libc 2.0 systems without difficulty. In my last job I had 20+
users doing so, and many of them were HEAVY users of Netscape.
You should probably look at the bigger picture instead of just trashing
netscape all the time.
6:45pm up 33 days, 2:18, 4 users, load average: 0.01, 0.01, 0.00
This, for example, is a pretty straightforward slink system and it's
been up since the last time I had to boot into Windoze for some sorry
reason, and I'd guess Netscape has been running 90% of that time, and
has only been shut down and restarted perhaps 4 times. I do that from
time to time because I only have 32MB on this box and if Netscape
renders much Java I end up swapping like crazy.
ii glibc-doc 2.0.7.19981211 GNU C Library: Documentation
ii libc6 2.0.7.19981211 GNU C Library: shared libraries
ii libc6-dev 2.0.7.19981211 GNU C Library: Development libraries and hea
ii navigator-base- 4.5-1 Popular World-Wide-Web browser software (bas
ii navigator-nethe 4.5-1 Popular World-Wide-Web browser software (run
ii navigator-smoti 4.5-1 Popular World-Wide-Web browser software (ful
ii netscape-base-4 5 Popular World-Wide-Web browser software (bas
ii netscape-base-4 4.5-1 Popular World-Wide-Web browser software (bas
ii netscape-java-4 4.5-1 Popular World-Wide-Web browser software (jav
Obviously, YMMV, but I think it's something other than Netscape giving
you fits, even though the symptoms are Netscape crashes.
Luck,
Pann
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