You can't just compare the features and stability of IE and Netscape, shouting that Netscape sucks. IE is a windows-only product. Netscape is cross-platform. Developing and maintaining a cross-platform product is far more complicated than supporting just one OS. By doing it, Netscape respects the internet and the web as a whole instead of just making cash of corporate policies.
Netscape is for now the only reasonable browser choice for many alternative OSes. Instead of complaining, thank them for supporting your OS and go help the Mozilla project.
Yes, it is likely that more than 10% of the people that both use linux and know about the counter have registered. But I'd bet that more than 50% of the linux users out there have never heard of the counter. So the original ceiling of 5% seems OK to me.
If you don't want to upgrade to RH6.0 which has truetype support out of the box, check the "related projects" page on http://www.freetype.org - there are a couple of pointers to font servers supporting truetype.
First of all, Communicator is not crappy. It does what it's supposed to. Second, plugins are a microscopic part of the web. Also note that the most popular plugin (flash) is available for linux. Third, if you take the time to check how fonts work in unix/X, you'll realize that you can install whatever fonts you like in whatever format you like. And by the way, it's called "verdana", not "verdona". Linux is (for the moment) aimed at people with a clue, or people wishing to learn something. So, either read some HOWTOs and set up your fonts, or shut up and use a microsoft OS.
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In fact, threads on linux are kernel based, so the blocking IO problem doesn't exist there.
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IE is a windows-only product. Netscape is cross-platform. Developing and maintaining a cross-platform product is far more complicated than supporting just one OS. By doing it, Netscape respects the internet and the web as a whole instead of just making cash of corporate policies.
Netscape is for now the only reasonable browser choice for many alternative OSes. Instead of complaining, thank them for supporting your OS and go help the Mozilla project.
Yes, it is likely that more than 10% of the people that both use linux and know about the counter have registered. But I'd bet that more than 50% of the linux users out there have never heard of the counter. So the original ceiling of 5% seems OK to me.
This sounds much like asking "Where is my grep?" after installing windows.
If you don't want to upgrade to RH6.0 which has truetype support out of the box, check the "related projects" page on http://www.freetype.org - there are a couple of pointers to font servers supporting truetype.
First of all, Communicator is not crappy. It does what it's supposed to.
Second, plugins are a microscopic part of the web. Also note that the most popular plugin (flash) is available for linux.
Third, if you take the time to check how fonts work in unix/X, you'll realize that you can install whatever fonts you like in whatever format you like. And by the way, it's called "verdana", not "verdona".
Linux is (for the moment) aimed at people with a clue, or people wishing to learn something. So, either read some HOWTOs and set up your fonts, or shut up and use a microsoft OS.
In fact, threads on linux are kernel based, so the blocking IO problem doesn't exist there.
Does any of the *BSDs have a proper pthreads implementation based on kernel threads? Last time I checked, only FreeBSD had a pthread.h in /usr/include.