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Re: Recommendations on a Firefox 2.0 non-athena installation?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Jun 5 13:27:23 2007
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
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I would tend to favor that people grab Firefox 2.0 from mozilla.org for
a non-Athena installation, rather than have us homegrow something here
that doesn't add much value.
On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 13:24 -0400, Bill Cattey wrote:
> I saw the news go by that Firefox 2.0 is getting integrated into Athena.
> This is good.
>
> I'm telling Red Hat that, "MIT is standardizing on Firefox 2.0 with or
> without Red Hat". It would be helpful to me with my Software Release
> Linux Platform Coordinator hat on, if there was a simple, easy Firefox
> for Red Hat package. Do you think we should just fetch what Mozilla.com
> offers, or is there an RPM or something that would be better? Perhaps
> athena-firefox-2.0-?-?.i386.rpm?
>
>
