Try hitting a site that runs flash or shockwave. Crashola. I just see
lots of posts on the redhat list about Netscape crashing, being
resource hog, bloatware etc etc. Granted some of those people could be
minimalists but the complaints are above average. back in Redhat
5.2/gnome 1.0 it was rather flaky for me as well.
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Long <mlong@ns.net>
To: <lug-nuts@cheapnet.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 7:46 AM
Subject: Re: [Lug-Nuts] 31 Flavors of LINUX
> I hardly have any problems with netscape running on my linux box. What
are
> you guys seeing? Actually, I did have a problem with netscape would
hit a
> web site with java in it, but that was easily fixed after doing a
little
> research on deja.com. It's been rock solid for me. I even bring up the
> yahoo messanger java applet now :)
>
> Michael
>
> On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Scott Tyson wrote:
>
> > Version 1.0 of Gnome was far less stable than NT. I didn't bother
with
> > KDE, wasn't much of a CDE fan when I had an HP-UX box. I'd rather
do
> > straight WindowMaker if I were to go back to Linux as my desktop OS.
> > Don't know how Redhat 6.1/Gnome is but my guess not that much
better.
> > I'm also kinda bummed I read all this negative stuff about Netscape
on
> > Linux. It runs fine for me on NT but then so does IE 5.0. Netscape
is
> > fatter and slower than I.E. 5 which is not great but it doesn't
crash.
> > Isn't Opera working on a Linux port?
> >
> > *********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********
> >
> > On 11/3/99 at 5:20 AM Hubert Littau scribbled:
> >
> > >I found Gnome to be about as stable as Netscape for Linux or for
that
> > matter,
> > >Microsoft *.*
> > >For me kde has been the work horse with Mandrake as well as
straight
> > Redhat.
> > >My own relatively early impression is that if there was one thing
that
> > would
> > >hold Linux back from desktop use it would have to be Netscape or
the
> > lack of
> > >a feature-comparable replacement.
> > >
> > >Eric Andreasen wrote:
> > >
> > >> Caldera Open Linux 2.2 and Mandrake (RedHat) 6.1. I go back and
> > forth. I
> > >> really like the look and feel of Gnome and Enlightenment. Celeron
> > 466 on
> > >> Abit BP6, 64MB RAM (more processors and RAM to come!) Having a
> > problem with
> > >> AGP though, doh! Will try to install driver tonight (a first for
> > me).
> > >>
> > >> ______________________________________________________
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> >
> >
> > Scott Tyson
> > Deepwell Gaming Server admin
> > tysons@deepwell.com ICQ#: 125581
> > http://rand.deepwell.com/
> >
> >
> >
>
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