From: Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: some problems on recent installation(sid) Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 03:03:27 -0800
> On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 05:21:23PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > > > > Next and last, is there no netscape in Debian/PowerPC? > > there is, but its old. 4.60 (or so) in potato and > 4.70 in unstable. i think It seems netscape-base-4 4.77-2 and netscape-*-resource-477 etc. exist but no netscape-smotif* at all in unstable. > suffice it to say netscape 4 for powerpc is old and full of many > security holes. its time to move on and install mozilla, 0.9 is quite > usable (more so if you use galeon instead of mozilla directly). > > > I heard that a distribution based on RedHat has netscape > > for PowerPC. > > they have the same as debian does, old insecure buggy packages. > netscape will not build current releases for powerpc. since > netscape is 100% proprietary nobody can change that except netscape. I see and thanks for your kind explanation. I will install mozilla. Best Regards, 2001.5.18 -- Debian Developer & Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian Atsuhito Kohda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.
