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Re: your mail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Klemmer)
Sat Oct 26 08:27:01 1996
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 08:25:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: Joe Klemmer <klemmerj@webtrek.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <199610260321.XAA03313@redhat.com>
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On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Donnie Barnes wrote:
> >As for support -- I seem to recall that Linux Navigator got moved into
> >the unsupported directory around the time that people started using newer
> >libc's. I don't know whether or not it's connected, but personally I have
> >my suspicions. As for legalities, I'm not commercial. At school I use
>
> Well, that supported vs unsupported business is semantic only. It
> used be in an "unsupported" directory, then they tossed that directory
> altogether. The READMEs have always stated it is unsupported under
> Linux when you download it. They recently (for whatever reason) made
> the unsupported dir appear again.
All I can say is that I have to run Netscape v1.12 at work (till I
can upgrade that system to RH) and it explicitly says it's unsupported.
Donnie's right.
> The simple fact is, Netscape's code isn't kosher and a libc change caused
> Java support to break. There are fixes posted for it. I told Bill about
> this. Also, as far as I'm concerned, Netscape works perfectly fine under
> 4.0 with *no* libc fixes. It's never crashed on me. I, unlike many
> folks, have *security* enabled, ie Java turned *off*. I never knew there
> was a "problem" until I heard about it via news.
I just got Netscape 3 working at home a little while ago. I
wanted to see this JAVA thing. I've seen it now and I'll be joining the
growing segment of the web by turning it off, too. It's not worth using.
Maybe someday, but not now.
Joe
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