Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 20:57:37 -0800
From: "David Williams" <djw@netscape.com>

> I remeber reading about netscape for mklinux, but I didn't save the url.
> Can someone please repost, or send it me privately.

For you and for anyone else listening...

  ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/4.04/development/english/unix/mklinux/

base_install is communicator (browser, mail, news, page editor).
navigator_standalong is just the browser.
professional_edition is communicator plus some 
other stuff that goes with the Pro version, but most of what is available in 
(say) the Mac version of pro is not available on MkLinux (for example: the 
calendar app comes from a 3rd party).

These bits were last updated in December. If you 
don't have the latest, you really want it.

> Also, does it run on
> the plain 2.1 release, I installed off the cd but have been kind of
> afraid to do the updates...

You will need to get to at least update 5. You must 
install shared libraries.
See update 3. See:

  http://www.mklinux.apple.com/MkLCurrent/updates/

 They've made a port to mklinux (I assume it will work on linuxppc as well.)

Sure Do!
seems a good web browser is a necessity in todays world.  Basically all
we have to do is convince Netscape to build a PowerPC binary.  They
already have a Linux/386 version, and there are very few things that
can't be ported EASILY.  Maybe microsoft would like to do a port of their
browser?
 
Mail Netscape, tell them you want it!
 
matecsh@students.wisc.edu
 
I actually phoned Netscape (in addition to mailing them) and they claim
that they won't do it. The guy I talked to also said that the i386 version
is "very" unofficial and not company sanctioned. What we need is help from
the Linux Intel community in how they got it built/who did it.
 
sharding@oregon.uoregon.edu

The other approach would be to get AIX binary support. The we could run
the AIX binary release of netscape. See the AIX binary wishlist question.

jcarr@linuxppc.org