I gave up on Firefox and Chrome on my low memory older laptops, found midori, and using it everywhere now. It has exactly what I need and no more.
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Fred Crowson <fred.crow...@gmail.com>wrote: > How much memory and disk does your SPARC have? > > You might want to consider a lighter weight browser like midori or netsurf > - I've not bother powering up my old SPARC boxes for about five years - and > I always ran them headless, so my advice is a bit out of date ;~) > > hth > > Fred > On 13 Sep 2013 16:40, "Richard Thornton" <thornton.rich...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > In general I really like and appreciate all that is done by developers > with > > OpenBSD. The OS is stable and it works well, and shipping it with X > > already functional is a big help, especially on older boxes. Because to > > compile xorg with this old sparc box under FreeBSD was taking > 24 hours > > and it still was not done. > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Gregor Best <g...@ring0.de> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:06:10AM -0400, Richard Thornton wrote: > > > > I am curious - given that OpenBSD ships each RELEASE with X , but > > > > applications like Firefox will not work without installing another > DE, > > > > [...] > > > > > > That is not true. I ran Firefox and Chrome on a clean OpenBSD 4.9 > > > installation when it was released and I have been able to since then, > > > and I find it hard to believe it was different before. > > > > > > > [...] > > > > XFCE; why not ship OpenBSD with the basic X, but with the necessary > > > > libraries to allow FireFox to run and other applications like R to > > output > > > > graphics? Also why not go ahead and ship with Firefox? The disk > would > > > > still be within the size of a standard CD. > > > > [...] > > > > > > Installing Firefox with pkg_add adds the required libraries > > > automatically. If it does not, that's a bug in the port that should be > > > reported. > > > > > > Adding Firefox to the base system would be a very bad idea. It is a > huge > > > load of code that needs to be maintained and not everyone uses Firefox. > > > What if I want Chrome instead? Add that to base? What about dillo? > > > netsurf? Why not add OpenOffice while we are at it? > > > > > > -- > > > Gregor Best
