Multiple OS's and (Re: netscape 4.6)

[Damion Yates <nospam [at] rd.bbc.co.uk>]

On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Al Hudson wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Damion Yates wrote:
>
> > http://www.troll.no/qtmozilla/ This is communicator linked against Qt, it's
> > stunningly fast, but lacks some pretty fundamental functionality making it
> > useless for my work (doesn't do authentication), and also crashes pretty
> > often when you find other stuff it doesn't do, such as 'view src'.
>
> Yes, I had a quick look a minute and actually there's tons of different
> versions - BeZilla (BeOS), aMozilla (Miggy), Jazilla (Java), etc. Is
> qtMozilla actually the latest moz, or is it just the old Communicator 4.X
> code?

It says on the web page, Basically just 5 days after Netscape Corp. released
the src code for Communicator5.0 Troll Tech released qtscape (as it was
called then) which was ns5.0 linked against Qt rather than Motif.

> > I looked at installing it on this Solaris 2.6 SPARC system, but it would
> > have been hell, as it had zillions of dependancies, things that you just
> > assume come with UNIX system, are often pretty Linux only. I had to
> > compile gcc with sun's cc, then get gtk+, which needed other stuff.. etc
> > etc..
>
> I would have thought autoconf automake would take care of this for you?

Yeah, they were just two of the things I had to download and compile. I
don't have root on my Workstation either so I've had to set --prefix in all
gnu software I've configured and made and then need to set environment
variables in the shell I use to compile each new part of a package. I
eventually got GTK+ and the gimp working. I've done this kind of thing for
years under linux, where it's trivial. It's quite a challenge.

> > I've got some HD space issues preventing me playing much with stuff with
> > Linux at home, once I sort the space I'll have an easier time playing.
>
> I'm planning on getting a new HD soon - 8.4Gb is now under 100UKP all in.
> It's too cheap for me not to!

I've filled all 3 disks (I have a cdrom taking the last IDE channel) I have
with things like FreeBSD, NetBSD and Solaris-x86. I borrowed an adaptec1542
EISA card, some SCSI hard drives and a cdrom, in at attempt to install
NeXTSTEP and Unixware, which require a SCSI cdrom drive (in the old days if
you had a cdrom it meant you had scsi as ATAPI wasn't around). Unfortunately
neither seemed to like my adapter, which I find odd as the adaptec1542 is
supposed to be the most bog standard one around.

If anyone has an old style reliable scsi card and wants to borrow either I'll
bring them up next time I'm in Sheffield.

Damion

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Damion Yates - Damion.Yates [at] bbc.co.uk

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