Subject: Re: Changing to NetBSD
To: Michael-John Turner <mj@turner.org.za>
From: Michael Lorenz <macallan@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 10/24/2007 19:51:52
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Hello,

On Oct 24, 2007, at 13:26, Michael-John Turner wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 02:15:03PM -0400, Michael Lorenz wrote:
>> KDE stuff Just Works(tm) most of the time ( it's far more of a  
>> memory hog
>> than a CPU hog ), firefox works fine, I've never tried OpenOffice.
>
> So, if I understand you correctly, Firefox 2.x now works on sparc64
> systems (I assume only on -current)? That's excellent news - my  
> last few
> attempts to use it were dismal failures (it usually died with a bus  
> error
> at startup).

When Andy switched our threading support over to his 1:1 code firefox  
suddenly worked on sparc64 and excessive rendering bugs on macppc  
disappeared.

have fun
Michael
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