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not bother powering up my old SPARC boxes for about five years - and I always ran them headless, so my advice is a bit out of date ;~)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, "Richard Thornton" <thornton.rich...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 still was not done. > > > On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Gregor Best <g...@ring0.de> wrote: > > > 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 it was released and I have been able to since then, > > and I find it hard to believe it was different before. > > > > > [...] > > > 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 why not go ahead and ship with Firefox? The disk would > > > still be within the size of a standard CD. > > > [...] > > > > Installing Firefox with pkg_add adds the required libraries > > automatically. If it does not, that's a bug in the port that should be > > reported. > > > > Adding Firefox to the base system would be a very bad idea. It is a huge > > load of code that needs to be maintained and not everyone uses Firefox. > > What if I want Chrome instead? Add that to base? What about dillo? > > netsurf? Why not add OpenOffice while we are at it? > > > > -- > > Gregor Best
