RE: NETSCAPE on Alpha AXP

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Gentle Alpha People,

This is one of the "flesh-eating drongos" at LSL taking a quick break from
eating WAY to much Red Meat to reply to this posting  (cant take too long,
lunch may walk off the plate all by itself).  We have Motif 1.2.4, 2.0.1
and 2.1 for the AXP. CD's are shipping and anyone who has not either
received the CD or download instructions, or otherwise been contacted by us
may wish to send email to info@lsl.com by the middle of next week. Pricing,
information and other Motiffery is available at http://www.lsl.com and is
being greatly extended over the next few days. Mozilla sources are shipped
with the CD with a pre-built version of Mozilla. You will also find a
statically linked version of Moz freely on http://www.lsl.com on the 28th
May and also by ftp.  Details can be found on the Web pages; follow the
flesh-eating Monster (just kidding).

Netscape on Axp is no mean feat, but it does work and is worth the effort,
if only to avoid the installation of NT ;-)  The next "challenge" will be
to get a stable JVM/JSCRIPT environment for the axp, watch this space for
more news !

http://www.lsl.com
info@lsl.com


At 01:32 PM 5/28/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Hello All,
>
>For all intents and purposes, there IS NO FREEWARE NETSCAPE
>for the Alpha axp running Redhat Linux.
>
>A FREEWARE version does not exist. It never has existed;
>and it is never likely to exist, considering the fact
>that Motif (required) for the axp will set you back one hundred
>bucks or so; and the freeware version of Motif, called Lesstif,
>will not normally support the compiled version of Mozilla. (Even
>if you could compile it *easily* for  the axp 64-bit architecture
>- and believe me it is *not* easy to compile Mozilla on the 
>alpha!!).
>
>Meanwhile LSL (www.lsl.com) *supposedly* will sell you Motif
>AND Netscape for the alpha axp/ Linux for $94.  However
>I have never been able to confirm that, and the flesh-eating
>drongos, er, pardon... I mean people, at LSL are,
>to put it mildly, less than helpful in documenting
>exactly what it is they are selling for the alpha.  
>
>Finally, I would like to say that there is an incredible global
>lack of enthusiasm for coming up with a mozilla that will compile
>and work with lesstif-current on the axp/redhat.  I have tried
>Uncle George's diff and spent many hours trying to get it to go,
>but in the end, I am not a programmer and decided it was not
>worthwhile learning c just to get netscape going.  As a result
>my alpha red-hat box has undergone the ultimate ignominy of
>being cut over to NT and just runs as a Netscape proxy server
>in the background.
>
>What a waste...
>
>-s  
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ken Hansen [mailto:khansen@njcc.com]
>Sent: Thursday, May 28, 1998 12:48 PM
>To: axp-list@redhat.com
>Subject: Re: NETSCAPE
>
>
>Imran,
>	Did you downlaod an Alpha port of Netscape? Just a thought...
>
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