On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 04:15:50PM -0800, C.M. Connelly wrote: > > "NA" == Nelson Abramson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "BJ" == Bjorn Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > BJ> I'm currently sitting with Netscape 4.73, but I know there > BJ> is a newer version, for Intel and many other platforms that > BJ> is. Do anyone know where I can find a newer ppc-version? I > BJ> downloaded 4.73 from www.linuxppc.com some time ago. When I > BJ> used Alien to make it a deb, I recevied some messages about > BJ> missing files. So, I have been suffering from too small > BJ> fonts and probably some other things too which I'm not > BJ> aware of =). > > NA> There are apt-get'able Netscape packages; 4.08-4.75. At > NA> the very least you can get rid of the app errors :-) > > Unfortunately, that's only sort of true. The important package to > look at is the communicator-smotif-<version> package, which is > architecture-dependent. The newest version for Debian PowerPC (in > woody) is communicator-smotif-47. That's version 4.7 -- as in > 4.70 -- dated April 10, 2000. > > Communicator was apparently being built by the LinuxPPC folks from > Netscape source and converted (by Dan?) to Debian packages; the > last update from LinuxPPC was 4.73, and while they've been > promising newer versions (including versions with 128-bit > encryption) for months, I haven't seen any movement. > > I currently have an aliened Communicator 4.73 RPM installed, with > the Debian netscape-base-4 and netscape-base-47 packages (which > supply some nice ``extras'', such as netscape-remote, along with > some basic configuration files, Xresources, etc.). I don't see > errors like the ones Bjorn alluded to, but I wouldn't guarantee I > have the greatest browsing experience out there, either. > > I'm really looking forward to a stable Mozilla....
Just as a notice, i was really convinced by mozilla M18 (so much that i erased netscape from my disk, as it crashed often when doing some java stuff.) at least on i386 hardware (well my ppc box is offline, so no need for netscape/mozzilla). Don't know if the ppc version will be as stable, but i guess so, yes mozilla_M18-2.deb is available in woody. Friednly, Sven LUTHER
