Subject: Re: netscape on sparc?
To: None <wonko@tmok.com>
From: Jonathan O'Brien <obrien@gossamer.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/30/2001 00:15:34
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> Ruibiao Qiu drunkenly mumbled...
> > >
> > >Can someone please advise me of the best way to go?
> >
> > You do need solaris libraries if you want to run binary.
>
> good luck. so far Netscape runs like complete crap on Solaris, so i don't
> give it high odds of running well under emulation.
>
> > You may want to try Mozilla if you dont mind the speed. It's much
> > like communicator.
>
> you mean Mozilla is slower than 4.7x? that can't be possible. i wouldn't
> think so anyway. 4.76 runs like a dog on my sparc20 2xSM71 320MB RAM
> Solaris 8 box.
I ran 4.7x with Solaris 8 libs on an SS10 50MHz with ~192MB RAM
and it wasn't so slow that it was unusable. Did have a problem with
DNS resolution but set it up to use proxies was a workaround. I believe
this was on 1.5 ALPHA2.
jonathan