Subject: Re: Netscape 4.0b2
To: None <wonko@madness.tmok.com>
From: A. Sporner <asporner@eagle.ibc.edu>
List: port-vax
Date: 02/26/1997 07:17:28
>
> Jeff Thieleke drunkenly mumbled...
> >
> > > my experience with running Navigator on a linux box is as follows:
> > >
> > > i have a 386dx33 (no FPU) with 20M RAM that runs linux. every version of
> > > Navigator from 2.x to 3.x (i haven't played with 4.x yet) failed to work on
> > > my linux box no matter what i did to it. didn't matter what libs i had or
> > > whatever was suggested i do to make it work. it eventually locked up the
> > > console to the point of my only route of escape was to telnet in from another
> > > machine and do a shutdown from there. locked the console 100% of the time.
> > > usually got about 5-10 minutes of running time before it happened. ok, got a
> >
> >
> > I have seen this too on my NetBSD machine. It only seems to happen when I
> > use the right mouse button operations, though.
>
> hmm, it was nothing that wierd. locked up no matter what i did. i noticed if
> i disabled Java & JavaScript it ran longer before it crashed, but still always
> crashed. *sigh*
>
> -wonko
>
I have netscape 2.x and Linux 1.2. I have no problems. I have hit
sights where I will lock up the window manager though. I have a strange
setup. I have a Vaxstation/3100 running VMS as a X-server. I run the
motif window manager from my Sequent and I telnet into the Linux box
(my communications gateway) to run Netscape. Just think, all this from
my living room. Maybe "wonko" has some competition?
Andy