Re: install5x.iso

2013-09-13 Thread Greg Thomas
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 wrote: > How much memory and disk does your SPARC have? > > You might want to consider a lighter weig

Re: install5x.iso

2013-09-13 Thread Fred Crowson
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not bother powering up my old SPARC boxes for about five years - and I always ran them headless, so my advice is a bit out of date ;~) hth Fred On 13 Sep 2013 16:40, "

Re: install5x.iso

2013-09-13 Thread Gregor Best
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

Re: install5x.iso

2013-09-13 Thread Richard Thornton
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 s

install5x.iso

2013-09-13 Thread Richard Thornton
I am curious - given that OpenBSD ships each RELEASE with X , but applications like Firefox will not work without installing another DE, like 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