Re: Browsers on NetBSD 1.5.2

From: Brian A. Sekcli (lavalamp_at_spiritual-machines.org)
Date: 10/27/03 

Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 01:57:33 -0500

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 15:08:08 +0200, Sebastian wrote:

>> Browsers have been a point of contention for some time in NetBSD. On
>> an old 1.5.x, I imagine your best bet is a linux-emul Mozilla binary or
>> so, possibly an old Netscape.
> Can you say me how to do that? I'm a newbie in NetBSD. I don't know how
> to emulate linux or even install a package other than 'pkg_add
> packagename'
> I thought to install a Netscape 4.7 or so or Mozilla. Maybe another

Linux emulation is a trival task:

http://www.netbsd.org/guide/en/chap-linux.html

Most emulated linux binaries perform faster than on thier native platform.

-lava

> graphical browser because always lynx is not good for happyness ;-)
>
>> Someone who used a 1.5.x workstaiton would be best off to offer an
>> opinion. What kind of hardware? Mozilla is a beast.
> I want to install that on a AMD Athlon 500 with 256 mb of RAM. And I
> want to install my notebook (486SL/33 with 12 mb RAM), but therefore
> Mozilla is too hungry ... there I only want to use a harddisk, but I've
> written already in
> another thread about.