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Can NetBSD/i386 run Netscape and Mozilla?

April 26, 2017i386 Mozilla NetBSD netscape run

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Can NetBSD/i386 run Netscape and Mozilla?

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Yes. Netscape browsers can run on NetBSD/i386 through binary emulation. Mozilla, where the source code is publically available, has been ported to run on NetBSD natively, and pre-built binary packages of Mozilla are available through the NetBSD packages collection (see www/mozilla). The two easiest ways to get Netscape Navigator (stand-alone browser) or Netscape Communicator running on NetBSD/i386 are through BSDi binary emulation or Linux binary emulation. To run a BSDi version, you’ll only need the kernel options for BSDi emulation in your kernel configuration file (the GENERIC kernel that gets installed with NetBSD has done this). Linux binary emulation under NetBSD/i386 relies on Linux libraries being under /emul/linux (see compat_linux(8)). The Linux versions are available through the NetBSD packages collection; if you install www/navigator or www/communicator, the dependencies of those packages will set up /emul/linux for you (or you can “make install” in emulators/suse_linux). I