My recommendation would be to use an older Netscape 4.0x. I've seen some horrendous memory leaks occur with 4.5-4.6. 4.61 might have them sealed, I use it to make some simple changes to my web sites but I haven't had a chance to watch it empirically.
----- Original Message ----- From: Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jeramy B Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org>; Sergio Brandano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, August 14, 1999 2:12 PM Subject: Re: netscape? > On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 06:30:01AM -0500, Jeramy B Smith wrote: > > > why is that LinuxPPC has the latest netscape communicator > > > up and running but Debian does not? > > > > > > Sergio > > > > I thought it was because Netscape 3,4 aren't totally free. Maybe 5 will make > > the Debian requirements. > > Debian has several different distributions. main, contrib, non-free > and non-US. The main distribution only allows Free Software as > defined by the Debian Free Software Guidelines > (http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines). contrib and > non-free are "not part of the Debian system, although it has been > configured for use with Debian." Seems a pretty thin distinction to > me, but at least the line is there. > > Anyhow, stuff like Netscape, which is just free beer, goes into > non-free. Mozilla's (Netscape 5) NPL license allows it to go into the > main distribution. They're both currently in the Powerpc distribution > under non-free/web and main/web respectively. Mozilla is at M8 > (current milestone), Netscape is at 4.6 (looks like pieces of 4.61 are > there). I don't know what the current version of Netscape is, but > something tells me it doesn't make a whole lot of difference. > > I wonder, does MySQL's "Its free unless you're using Windows" license > fail the "License Must Not Contaminate Other Software"? > > -- > > Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.pobox.com/~schwern > /(?:(?:(1)[.-]?)?\(?(\d{3})\)?[.-]?)?(\d{3})[.-]?(\d{4})(x\d+)?/i > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
