On 15/08/2005, at 11:04 AM, jon freddy wrote:
When I get my new computer and I am going to run
FreeBSD, also, I want to still run the browser
Firefox. But if you go to Firefox's website it also
lists other OS, but not FreeBSD. But I see that a lot
of my friends that run FreeBSD use firefox. Would I
install the Linux package because it is also a Unix System?
The systems you see on the firefox website are just binary packages
they have made
for various systems. It is actually better to compile the source
yourself on your own
system in a lot of cases, since you can specify optimizations that
they probably didn't
put into their binary packages so as to make them work on lots of
systems..
Just about every single application you ever want to use can be found
in the ports
collection, which if installed is found in /usr/ports by default..
The very lastest build
of firefox may not be in a port yet (is it?) in which case if you
really want it you can
just download the source from their website and compile it (they
probably have
instructions on how to do this but generally it is just a matter of
decompressing
the archive and running 'configure' then 'make install' in the base
directory of the
archive).
The linux binary package possibly will also work if you have
installed the linux
compatibility stuff and have the module loaded, but it is better to
use native where
possible!
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