[plug] wine, netscape

Bret Busby bret at clearsol.iinet.net.au
Fri Sep 29 12:37:44 WST 2000


Christian wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 11:39:49AM +0800, Matt Kemner wrote:
> > On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Bret Busby wrote:
> >
> > > And, go back to 4.08? That was the version used on RH5.2.
> > >
> > > Does that run on RH6.2? It was previously run on RH 5.2, which had the
> > > 2.0.35 kernel (I think), whereas RH 6.2 has the 2.2.something kernel
> 
> > I'm still running the same version of Netscape I was running when I had
> > glibc2.0.
> 
> Netscape had a major security problem recently with it's JPEG renderer
> so it is definitely advisable to get the latest version which is not
> vulnerable to this and a number of other problems (4.75 for memory).
> Incidentally, I've always found that running the version packaged for my
> distribution gives unreliable results so I always download the .tar.gz
> from Netscape and install this into /usr/local -- from my own experience
> this has proved much more reliable.  Of course, YMMV.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Christian.

What is YMMV?

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