Subject: Re: Changing to NetBSD
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Christian Baer <christian.baer@uni-dortmund.de>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 10/26/2007 12:51:26
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:26:14 +0200 Michael-John Turner wrote:

> 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).

I haven't tried it on NetBSD but it always failed with FreeBSD/sparc64
here too, which was really a shame because the old Suns may not be useful
for many applications that need a lot of CPU-power but they were certainly
strong enough for basic surfing, mailing and the like.

Regards
Chris