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Re: NetBSD vs. FreeBSD



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Hello,

On Feb 8, 2009, at 12:49 PM, David Holland wrote:

On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 06:25:20PM +0300, Aleksej Saushev wrote:
Since this is another instance, that assertion needs clarification:
I have had several NetBSD installation of desktop type in not so distant past, and Firefox completed installation and ran on only on one of three systems. I don't understand what is so fragile in it, but it happens to be that fragile. Thus I had Javascript-capable browser only on one of three NetBSD installation. Such problems have never occurred to me neither on FreeBSD nor on Linux. Note: problems even with Javascript, let alone Flash.

As a counterpoint, I've never had the slightest bit of trouble that I
can remember with seamonkey. And it seems to be a lot less crashy on
NetBSD than on Linux, too.

And then there's always konqueror - for a long time it was the only modern browser that would run reliably on sparc64. Also, galeon seems to run a lot faster and more stable than firefox. So, all my NetBSD installations that have enough RAM have at least one javascript capable browser. None of them is x86 though.

I've never tried to run flash in it though.

I got gnash to work but didn't play with it a lot.

have fun
Michael

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