After *much* fun I got Hipster 2017.10 to install on my Giada N3. Firefox > is marginally functional, very marginally functional. It consumes roughly > 1/2 of the 2 GB main memory. >
One issue is also the processor, Intel Atom Diamondville is a poorly performing architecture: in-order, little L2, poor FPU. Only Atom Avoton is decent. I bought a similarly spec'd D525-based Supermicro motherboard a few years ago after reading positive reviews and it was a big disappointment. > > The first set of output is from the first session when I was asked about > telemetry. The 2nd seems to relate to "getting into yahoo mail and trying > to send a message." The part in quotes above was all typed without echo. > > -------------------------------------------------------- > rhb@openindiana:~$ /usr/bin/firefox > [Child 1674] ###!!! ABORT: Aborting on channel error.: file > /jenkins/jobs/oi-userland/workspace/components/web/ > firefox/firefox-52.4.1esr/ipc/glue/MessageChannel.cpp, line 2152 > [Child 1674] ###!!! ABORT: Aborting on channel error.: file > /jenkins/jobs/oi-userland/workspace/components/web/ > firefox/firefox-52.4.1esr/ipc/glue/MessageChannel.cpp, line 2152 > Killed > rhb@openindiana:~$ /usr/bin/firefox > 1510491023078 addons.update-checker WARN Update manifest for > webcom...@mozilla.org did not contain an updates property > 1510491023185 addons.update-checker WARN Update manifest for > e10sroll...@mozilla.org did not contain an updates property > 1510491023297 addons.update-checker WARN Update manifest for > aushel...@mozilla.org did not contain an updates property > 1510491023407 addons.update-checker WARN Update manifest for > fire...@getpocket.com did not contain an updates property > 1510491026100 addons.update-checker WARN Update manifest for > {972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd} did not contain an updates property > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Typing more than a few words is very problematic. > > The release notes asserted that one could install versions of OI in > parallel. Having successfully installed 151_a8 in the first 1/2 of the > disk I tried installing Hipster in the 2nd half. This was *not* good for > 1515_a8.. The install seemed to go normally, but when I tried to log in, > 2017.10 would not accept my password. I moved the drive over to another > 2017.10 instance on a z400 and cleared the passwords from /etc/shadow. > After that the 2017.10 instance would not boot. > > I had intended to use the 2nd half of the disk to mirror the first half as > protection against media failures. However, ti appears that it is not > possible access the 2nd MSDOS partition. I used the text installer for all > installs. The typing latency is running to over a minute at times. > > The text installer would *not* allow me to have two Solaris partitions. > > Having discovered that the latency is because 2 GB is not enough memory, > I'm not sure any of this matters. > Firefox has become a slow hippo even on my Core i5-3230 based Debian laptop ... unfortunately is seems an inevitable trend ... > > Reg > -- --- Praise the Caffeine embeddings
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