Re: amd64 running on Intel Celeron and Pentium? (was: [SECURITY] [DSA 5113-1] firefox-esr security update)

On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 03:45:37PM +0200, Levis Yarema wrote: > Is there in deed any reason to prefer amd64 over i586 if you have the > choice and a machine with 2GB RAM or less, apart from perhaps long term > support? Twice the registers and sse instructions for fpu rather than x87? -- Len Sore

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 5113-1] firefox-esr security update

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Elmar Stellnberger on Thursday., 2022-04-14T18:51:01+0200: Where can I get this from for buster and architecture i386? does not have it. Friedhelm

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 5113-1] firefox-esr security update

On 14.04.22 14:52, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: I am also running Debian 10 on my Asus eeePC (Pentium M). I am mainly using it as a dictionary. Although I am performing security updates quite regularly I have not run into this issue. Having updated just now I am with Firefox 78.15.0-esr-1~deb10

Re: amd64 running on Intel Celeron and Pentium? (was: [SECURITY] [DSA 5113-1] firefox-esr security update)

Is there in deed any reason to prefer amd64 over i586 if you have the choice and a machine with 2GB RAM or less, apart from perhaps long term support? Am Do., 14. Apr. 2022 um 10:38 Uhr schrieb Paul Wise : > On Tue, 2022-04-12 at 05:59 +0200, Friedhelm Waitzmann wrote: > > > And if it is indeed p

Re: amd64 running on Intel Celeron and Pentium? (was: [SECURITY] [DSA 5113-1] firefox-esr security update)

On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 02:34:22PM +0200, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 03:11:04PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 08:18:30PM +0200, Levis Yarema wrote: > What about Spectre /Meltdown? P3/P4/Pentium M systems don´t have that? Core 2 > systems to my knowled

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 5113-1] firefox-esr security update

On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 02:50:32PM +0200, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: > On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 11:31:01PM +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > > Friedhelm Waitzmann wrote: > > >> For the oldstable distribution (buster), these problems have > > >> been fixed in version 91.8.0esr-1~deb10u1. > > > > > >

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 5113-1] firefox-esr security update

On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 11:31:01PM +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > Friedhelm Waitzmann wrote: > >> For the oldstable distribution (buster), these problems have > >> been fixed in version 91.8.0esr-1~deb10u1. > > > > Where can I get this from for buster and architecture i386? > >

Re: amd64 running on Intel Celeron and Pentium? (was: [SECURITY] [DSA 5113-1] firefox-esr security update)

On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 03:11:04PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 08:18:30PM +0200, Levis Yarema wrote: > > What about Spectre /Meltdown? P3/P4/Pentium M systems don´t have that? Core > > 2 > > systems to my knowledge can. > > There's no reason to believe netburst systems a

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 5113-1] firefox-esr security update

On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 11:01:06AM +0200, Maurice Dirr wrote: > Are you running KDE programs on a Pentium 4? > How can that work without hardware acceleration? > Well QCoan is a plain Qt program, not a KDE app, but Yes I am running KDE apps on that PIV. You have to use > export LIBGL_ALWAYS_SO

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 5113-1] firefox-esr security update

Are you running KDE programs on a Pentium 4? How can that work without hardware acceleration? On 14.04.22 10:52, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: >Could it be that also other programs are affected by this issue? > > I have been building Coan (one of my programs) recently on the OBS and it > > did n

Re: amd64 running on Intel Celeron and Pentium? (was: [SECURITY] [DSA 5113-1] firefox-esr security update)

On 14.04.22 10:37, Paul Wise wrote: On Tue, 2022-04-12 at 05:59 +0200, Friedhelm Waitzmann wrote: And if it is indeed possible, how can I switch from i386 to amd64?  Can this be done with the apt tools?  Then during the migrating some packages will be from amd64 already while others will be sti

Re: amd64 running on Intel Celeron and Pentium? (was: [SECURITY] [DSA 5113-1] firefox-esr security update)

On Tue, 2022-04-12 at 05:59 +0200, Friedhelm Waitzmann wrote: > And if it is indeed possible, how can I switch from i386 to > amd64?  Can this be done with the apt tools?  Then during the > migrating some packages will be from amd64 already while others > will be still i386.  How does that go r