Re: netscape not in unstable

2002-11-25 Thread Seneca
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:40:04PM +1300, Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote: > Netscape 7 series does include some fluff, but I like the added in Java, > flash, spell checker & this may sound quaint; but I have grown somewhat > attached to this old beastie, as we have been together since about 1994

Re: netscape not in unstable

2002-11-25 Thread Haralambos Geortgilakis
Hi guys (in the gender-inclusive sense) & Rob, who did notith Flamebait nor Troll as below ;-) Verily, did Netscape say to Microsoft, "stuff you mate!" While the later hath won many battles, the war continuesith & AOL/Netscape *fund* (kudos hereabouts!) both Mozilla & Netscape 7.x. Nets

Re: netscape not in unstable

2002-11-24 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 02:44:18PM +1300, Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote: > > > Hi Yall & Mike, > > point your software @ Netscape's FTP/HTTP & grab whatever you want. > > I am on Netscape 7.0 now & it is just fine. There are no .debs, but the > installer is ok. Can I ask why you chose Netscap

Re: netscape not in unstable

2002-11-24 Thread Haralambos Geortgilakis
Hi Yall & Mike, point your software @ Netscape's FTP/HTTP & grab whatever you want. I am on Netscape 7.0 now & it is just fine. There are no .debs, but the installer is ok. Greek Geek :-) Just like our old friends at IBM used to say (of) OS/2 with Win32 support in the early 90s was a "bet

Re: netscape not in unstable

2002-11-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 08:04:04PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Is there a reason why netscape isn't in unstable? Yeah. Mozilla is NS6 without the crap. The netscape package was something like 4.76 and was getting increasingly buggy as the libraries got newer. Mozilla works a lot bett

Re: netscape not in unstable

2002-11-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 08:04:04PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Is there a reason why netscape isn't in unstable? Yep. http://ftp-master.debian.org/removals.txt says: = [Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 06:29:07 -0500] [ftpma