Subject: Re: Web Browsers for NetBSD/mac68k (Was: Opera)
To: Mark Andres <mark@giganet.net>
From: Jason S. <root@pbase>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 12/23/1997 14:24:11
>
> Hi,
>
> OK, I stand corrected on the existence of a MkLinux version of Netscape.
> However, I don't think this changes my main points. Let's compare
> NetBSD/mac68k with MkLinux:
>
> * MkLinux is backed by Apple and gets their cooperation.
> * NetBSD/mac68k does not.
>
> * MkLinux runs on PowerPC chips. They are still in production today and
> should continue to be used for at least the near future by Apple and IBM.
> * NetBSD/mac68k runs on 680X0 chips. While they were widely used in their
> hey day by Apple, Sun, HP, Amiga, and Atari, they are no longer being
> used seriously for computers. They are basically at a dead-end platform.
> Apple, Sun, and HP have all moved on to other chips.
>
> Which would you develop for if you were Netscape? I have never used
> MkLinux (although I may soon be getting my hands on a PowerMac 6100/AV
> for free), so I cannot talk about which UN*X is better. But from a business
> stand-point, developing for MkLinux over NetBSD/mac68k makes better sense.
My assumption was that all Netscape probably had to do was
compile the linux-x86 version for PowerPC. Netscape has made
it _very_ clear that the linux-ppc/mklinux version is _very_
unsupported. There is a FreeBSD version - why don't you
guys politely ask Netscape to see if it would compile for
NetBSD-m68k?
>
> Mark
>
> On Tue, 23 Dec 1997, Armen Babikyan wrote:
>
> > If this is true, which i don't really doubt, I wouldn't be surprised
> > because Apple would be the kind of company who would pay Netscape a sum of
> > money to port their software to their operating systems. (remember,
> > Mklinux was partially funded by Apple)
>
> Mark Andres E-mail: mark@giganet.net
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>