From: qut@netcom.com (Roger Healy OBC)
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 12:12:38 +0800
To: scraver@mnet.fr (Arnauld Dravet)
Subject: Re: Netscape under Linux (Vs microsoft)
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> > > Would it be possible to both supply an Linux ELF and a.out binary ?
> > 
> >   No, we will only be supplying ELF.  Since linux is not officially
> > supported, we really don't have the resources to do multiple versions.
> 
> yesterday i was in #linux on irc , and several pplreports some bugs with
> netscape under linux.i got some too many times a day... Netscape crashes
> when i try to load some HTML pages...i assume it shouldn't and we got
> ansolutly no probs with Netscape under windows.
> SO we just wondered if it's not a kind of support to micro$oft.
> Maybe Linux is 'not officially supported', but have to know unix is the
> most used OS, and that since Linux is free, many people use it. So when
> will you accept to recognize Linux as an entire OS ?? i just reinstalled
> Windows95 on a HD yesterday and it has already crached 2x. Windows is
> expensive and it crashes. Why should we pay for a fucked 'OS' ?

No shit.  I was thrilled to watch the entire disk overwritten by unix.  
Everthing which came with the system was boring and useless.  Gimmee BSD 
anyday, a socialist operating system


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Love, Qut OBC