Ultra 10 running Netscape?

[cottage]

Hi All

I recently acquired a Ultra 10 box running Solaris 2.5.1. I would like to set it up to surf the net and handle email with Netscape or IE. It is presently used as a workstation only.

Any suggestions

 

[lfoata]

First you chould think of upgrading the OS.
IE does not work on Solaris (Microsoft politics)
You can install netscape, but stay away from 6.0
I am running 4.77 and it works fine. You may try 6.1, it is supposed to be much faster than 6.0.

The set up to reach net depends on you r network. Do you have a proxy server or firewall ? are you networked ? Is the access through a modem ?

 

[cfsalmeida]

There is version of IE 5.0 (beta), that run in HP-UX and in Solaris, if you are interested in try this you can download direct from Microsoft at:

http://www.microsoft.com/unix/ie/downloads/default.asp

about Netscape i completley agree with "lfoata", stay away from 6.0, however 6.1A its realy much faster than 6.0 and have more features than the 4.78.


Hope it helps and good luck !

Regards,

Carlos Almeida,