Re: Netscape 7 issues.

From: Stefaan A Eeckels (hoendech_at_ecc.lu)
Date: 07/11/03

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    Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 10:27:27 +0200

    On 11 Jul 2003 03:55:05 GMT
    behr@muir.math.niu.edu (Eric Behr) wrote:

    Tale of woe snipped...

    > This will be the end of Unix, at least on the desktop. For an
    > average user having a good working browser is now much more
    > important any perceptible advantage that Unix offers to him.
    >
    > Is there anyone else out there trying to support desktop apps
    > on Solaris? How do you guys deal with this?

    My Solaris desktop has the following basic applications:

    BROWSERS:
    - Netscape 7.0 (from Sun): Runs without problems, hardly ever
      crashes, installation is a snap with pkgadd.
    - Mozilla (currently 1.4 from Blastwave): pkg-get installed it
      without problems, fetching a few more recent libraries than
      I have installed in /opt/sfw. Runs OK, will probably replace
      Netscape in a few weeks as it seems Sun isn't going to produce
      a new version of Netscape.

    EMAIL/NEWS:
    - Sylpheed 0.9.2, locally compiled from CVS. Handles huge mailboxes
      with ease. Mail is fetched from the local qmail MTA using POP3
      and stored locally. The largest mailbox I'm aware of is about
      500MB, but it's MH style (one file per message). It takes about
      2 seconds to open on a U60/2360.

    OFFICE AUTOMATION:
    - StarOffice 6.0: Installation is a snap, it runs OK, and has
      reasonable compatibility with Word documents.
    - StarOffice 6.1beta2: Overall much better, especially importing
      from and exporting to Word. Co-exists happily with SO 6.0.

    The Linux desktops use the same applications. The Windows desktops
    currently use Pegasus for mail, and Netscape for news; I'm looking
    at Sylpheed for Windows, which is getting pretty good. Once I
    have all systems using the same software, I'll start thinking
    about replacing Netscape/Mozilla with a lighter, browser-only
    variant.

    Take care, 

    -- 
Stefaan
-- 
"What is stated clearly conceives easily."  -- Inspired sales droid
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