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Mosaic Linux-Razor1911

Mosaic Linux-razor1911 ◎ [ FULL ]

NCSA Mosaic was open source, but its original Unix version relied on the Motif widget toolkit. Motif was owned by the Open Software Foundation, and its license cost hundreds of dollars per seat. For a Linux user in 1994, paying for Motif was anathema. You could compile Mosaic against the free alternative, LessTif, but LessTif was buggy and incomplete.

For the true retro-computing archaeologist, running the original release is a challenge. Mosaic Linux-Razor1911

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