On Sat, 2024-09-28 at 08:45 -0700, Ken Cunningham wrote:
> > I don't think it's actually really any difficult.
>
> Indeed, thank goodness it is so trivially easy to build things on debian.
> I have build -- many things now. For one recent impressive one, the 64 bit
> PPC version Lazarus has a long
> On Sep 28, 2024, at 6:31 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2024-09-28 at 06:14 -0700, Ken Cunningham wrote:
>> But as detailed in the thread last November, I ran into trouble getting a
>> build
>> system working in debian PPC for the current Firefox code base. I asked for
Hello,
There are lots of browsers. I tried to classify them by engine. Don't
hesitate to notify errors or missing. Browsers based on Chromium are
interesting because they integrate WebXR and can work with virtual reality .
Browsers based on Mozilla Gecko engine :
- Firefox
- GNU IceCat : htt
Hi,
I tested on iMAC G5 with Radeon graphic card
epiphany-browser : segmentation fault
dillo -> better than links but no pictures, not very comfortable.
CU
Claudia
Am Samstag, 28. September 2024, 14:58:36 CEST schrieb Ken Cunningham:
> Firefox has been broken for some years. That’s not really
On Sat, 2024-09-28 at 06:14 -0700, Ken Cunningham wrote:
> But as detailed in the thread last November, I ran into trouble getting a
> build
> system working in debian PPC for the current Firefox code base. I asked for
> help, but nothing was suggested. So that is still in a folder on my dual G5.
> On Sep 28, 2024, at 05:58, Ken Cunningham
> wrote:
>
> Firefox has been broken for some years.
>
> Of course it will be great if someday it were fixed.
I have some practical experience coding in the FireFox code base— a few years
ago Riccardo and I collaborated for a few weeks over the
Firefox has been broken for some years. That’s not really a matter of opinion
:) :)
Of course it will be great if someday it were fixed.
Epiphany is OK for simple things like viewing the gnome help files, but you
will likely find as I did it can’t handle most current web sites you may try.
J
On Sat, Sep 28, 2024 at 6:05 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
wrote:
>
> Hello João,
>
> On Sat, 2024-09-28 at 10:36 +0100, João wrote:
> > SeaLion is definitely worth considering, but it is not part of the
> > distribution,
> > and it would be desirable if Debian PPC (we are talking about big endian
Hello João,
On Sat, 2024-09-28 at 10:36 +0100, João wrote:
> SeaLion is definitely worth considering, but it is not part of the
> distribution,
> and it would be desirable if Debian PPC (we are talking about big endian PPC,
> and I'm using PPC64 myself) would have a modern featurefull browser ava
Hello Ken,
On Fri, Sep 27, 2024 at 03:29:57PM -0700, Ken Cunningham wrote:
> We had previously decided that the best browser available for debian PPC was
Surely the best browser is a matter of personal choice ;)
> SeaLion (https://github.com/wicknix/SeaLion) is the best choice for PowerPC.
>
Hello,
On Thu, 2024-09-26 at 22:47 +0200, Claudia Neumann wrote:
> @John: If I can help looking for the reason why firefox gives a segmentation
> fault, tell me what I should do. Compiling software is not a problem to me.
Firefox crashing on big-endian systems is a known issue, see:
> https://bu
On 2024-09-27, at 2:50 PM, João wrote:
> Hello Claudia,
>
> On Thu, 26 Sep 2024 22:47:54 +0200, Claudia Neumann wrote:
>> As browser I use links2, not very comfortable.
>
> You may want to try Netsurf (https://packages.debian.org/sid/netsurf-gtk),
> depending on what you do it may work better t
Hello Claudia,
On Thu, 26 Sep 2024 22:47:54 +0200, Claudia Neumann wrote:
> As browser I use links2, not very comfortable.
You may want to try Netsurf (https://packages.debian.org/sid/netsurf-gtk),
depending on what you do it may work better thank links2.
Have you tried Epiphany (https://package
On Thu, Sep 26, 2024 at 9:54 AM Steffen Grunewald
wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2024-09-26 at 14:37:47 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> [...]
>
> > You will need to add "unreleased" to your sources.list to use it:
> >
> > deb http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/ unreleased main
>
> Many
Hi all,
hi John,
thanks to the new package b43-fwcutter the wlan works as expected. Many thanks
to John
Glaubitz!
Now I can report, that the iMac G5 works with Debian Trixie/Sid:
Hardware from hwinfo:
cpu: PPC970FX, altivec supported, 2100 MHz
monitor: Apple
On Thu, 2024-09-26 at 15:53 +0200, Steffen Grunewald wrote:
> > I will build the package manually and upload it to "unreleased" for both
> > powerpc
> > and ppc64. It will be available by tonight.
>
> Even better!
;-)
> > You will need to add "unreleased" to your sources.list to use it:
> >
>
On Thu, 2024-09-26 at 14:37:47 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi Claudia,
>
> On Thu, 2024-09-26 at 14:00 +0200, Claudia Neumann wrote:
> > I downloaded firmware-b43-installer but cannot install it, because it wants
> > b43-fwcutter.
> > This package is only available für ppc64el not f
Great! Thx
CU
Claudia Neumann
Am Donnerstag, 26. September 2024, 14:37:47 CEST schrieb John Paul Adrian
Glaubitz:
> Hi Claudia,
>
> On Thu, 2024-09-26 at 14:00 +0200, Claudia Neumann wrote:
> > I succeeded in installing Debian trixie/sid on an iMac G5 with Radeon
> > X550/X600 graphic card. I
Hi Claudia,
On Thu, 2024-09-26 at 14:00 +0200, Claudia Neumann wrote:
> I succeeded in installing Debian trixie/sid on an iMac G5 with Radeon
> X550/X600 graphic
> card. I am using Xfce and Links2 as webbrowser.
>
> Now I need wireless LAN. It has an Broadcom BCM4318 (AirForce One 54g)
> 802.1
Hi John,
hi all,
I succeeded in installing Debian trixie/sid on an iMac G5 with Radeon X550/X600
graphic
card. I am using Xfce and Links2 as webbrowser.
Now I need wireless LAN. It has an Broadcom BCM4318 (AirForce One 54g) 802.11g
Wireless LAN Controller.
I downloaded firmware-b43-installe
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