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1995-09-22 - Re: Netscape to end Linux support?

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From: Laurent Demailly <dl@hplyot.obspm.fr>
To: Jeff Simmons <jsimmons@goblin.punk.net>
Message Hash: bece53072cf6d9c4157501f1e4fc5e5e12639f364fc65b4f697726d2046c3f25
Message ID: <9509221008.AA18570@hplyot.obspm.fr>
Reply To: <199509212125.RAA00188@hoopsnake.cjs.net>
UTC Datetime: 1995-09-22 10:10:38 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 22 Sep 95 03:10:38 PDT

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From: Laurent Demailly <dl@hplyot.obspm.fr>
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 95 03:10:38 PDT
To: Jeff Simmons <jsimmons@goblin.punk.net>
Subject: Re: Netscape to end Linux support?
In-Reply-To: <199509212125.RAA00188@hoopsnake.cjs.net>
Message-ID: <9509221008.AA18570@hplyot.obspm.fr>
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Jeff Simmons writes:
 > > And the sad part is that now that they have announced that they are
 > > dropping their unofficial Linux support, I really want to hurt
 > > Netscape badly.
 > > Sigh.
 > Anyone got a pointer to this announcement?
 > Damn!  Just when I was starting to like them ...

Hmm, I was also thinking good about responsiveness on the security
issue (though the way they behave regarding html extensions is still
not fair imo, but that's another debate), and I have modified my
netscape security page accordingly, but, dropping Linux as the list of
UNIX supported host is certainly not a good thing at all, I
urge/pray/suggest... that listening Netscape folks here try to put
it back, PLEASE (It is not that difficult to compile under linux is it ?)

(source :
http://www.netscape.com/comprod/products/navigator/version_2.0/datasheet.html
[...]
SUPPORTED PLATFORMS 
[...]
UNIX: 
            Digital Equipment Corp. Alpha (OSF/1 2.0) 
            Hewlett-Packard 700-series (HP-UX 9.03) 
            IBM RS/6000 AIX 3.2 
            Silicon Graphics (IRIX 5.2) 
            Sun SPARC (Solaris 2.4, SunOS 4.1.3) 
            386/486/Pentium (BSDI) 
)
Or maybe it is just a missing item in the list ? [i hope!]

dl
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