[OLUG] fsckin' netscape must die

[Phil Brutsche]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

>     I've been running nescape 4.6 and 4.61 and I have never been more
> disappointed in a linux application. I've had a steady stream of crashes, mostly
> related to Java/Javascript so far as I can tell, and the behavior is getting
> steadily worse as time passes - it feels just like a six month old windos NT
> workstation install - slowly slipping towards outright insanity and
> reinstallation.  I am using redhat 6.1 at home and redhat 6.0 at work with both
> systems upgraded to run 4.61. The 6.1 box is *much* crazier when netscape is up
> ... I've had Java starting lead to outright xserver crashes on a number of
> occasions.

A hint: use a different binary.  They're available for libc5, glibc2, and
glibc2.1.  glibc2 may not be an option, but you may have better luck with
libc5 (or glibc2.1, if you're using the libc5 binary)

> Is anyone else suffering this indignity?

Can't say that I am.

> I spend most of my day browsing/emailing and using staroffice so it
> really stinks to have 50% of my main software puking on a regular
> basis. Are there any strategies for stabilizing it? Or at least
> containing the damages?

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Phil Brutsche					pbrutsch at creighton.edu

"There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the
universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein


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