Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA17762; Mon, 22 Jan 96 00:41:03 EST Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA24471; Mon, 22 Jan 96 00:40:59 EST Received: from freefall.FreeBSD.ORG by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA23515; Mon, 22 Jan 1996 00:41:00 -0500 Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA07240 Sun, 21 Jan 1996 20:40:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA07114 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 21 Jan 1996 20:40:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA07099 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 1996 20:40:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA21045; Sun, 21 Jan 1996 21:42:41 -0700 Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 21:42:41 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199601220442.VAA21045@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: Jake Hamby Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Still no Java in Netscape?! In-Reply-To: References: <1900.822264582@time.cdrom.com> Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > They need threads. > > Hmmm, well the version of Linux Netscape runs on (1.1.x and above, a.out) > doesn't have kernel threads, so I assume they're using user-mode > pthreads? Yep. > If so, I guess it would be a bit of work to get those running > with BSDI, though not impossible... Yep. > Well, I guess the best thing is to > show our support for a native (or at least BSDI-emulation) version with > Java support, and in the meantime use the Linux version... Julian is in the process of importing the pthreads stuff into -current even now, but this work isn't BSDi. I doubt the NetScape folks are going to go out of their way to add a pretty basic feature to BSDi just to get Java applets going. This should be something BSDi's technical staff should be doing, but apparently aren't. Nate