Found this on Comp.os.linux.misc - hope it's true: Tobias Engel <s120808@fb1.fhtw-berlin.de> writes:
I looked at the Data Sheet-Page for the Netscape Navigator 2.0 today (http://home.netscape.com/comprod/products/navigator/version_2.0/datasheet.ht...). There is a "Supported Platforms"-List at the end of the Page. For Unix it says: --- 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) ---
So, where is Linux???
In comp.infosystems.www.browsers.x Jamie Zawinski <jwz@netscape.com> said that there *will* be a 2.0 version for Linux. He also explained why Linux isn't listed and why Netscape will tell you that there will not be a supported version of Netscape for Linux. This is a copy of that article, which is worth reposting here, I think, because of the large threads about this subjects: From: Jamie Zawinski <jwz@netscape.com> Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.browsers.x Subject: Re: Netscape 2.0 for Linux Organization: Netscape Communications Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 16:11:19 -0700 Marco Trincardi wrote:
There will be a Linux version of the new upcoming Netscape 2.0 ??? At Netscape HomePage i didnt find usefull info.
And I replied:
Yes, once 2.0 is released (please don't ask me when) it will be available for all platforms on which 1.1 is available.
Since then, it would seem that some folks have called our customer support lines and gotten a seemingly different answer, so allow me to clarify: When someone in customer support tells you "we will not be supporting Linux in Netscape 2.0," they're right: but that's because we didn't support it in 1.0 or 1.1 either. "Support" means we sell the software, and you can buy a support contract. This is not, and has never been the case for Linux. You have never been able to get a *supported* version of Netscape Navigator for Linux. We have no Linux *product*; our sales and support folks don't deal with it in any way, and never have. However, there has been an unsupported educational/evaluation version available for that platform, and this will also be the case for 2.0. -- Jamie Zawinski jwz@netscape.com http://www.netscape.com/people/jwz/ -- -- Jos Vos <jos@xos.nl> -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204 -- Jeff Simmons jsimmons@goblin.punk.net