Re: News about Firefox for PowerPC

2019-03-06 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 3/7/19 8:21 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > Ha. Let's not drag the SPARC world into this. In my opinion, based on > some twenty years of observational data, the only problem with SPARC > based systems is that they are horribly slow and run horribly hot while > costing horrible amounts of money.

Re: News about Firefox for PowerPC

2019-03-06 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 3/6/19 12:34 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 3/6/19 5:52 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote: >> So would it be of value for me to fire up Debian buster or sid on a >> PowerMac G5 here and do some testing? Not sure where you are getting >> your Firefox from. Also is that the nightly builds? >

Re: News about Firefox for PowerPC

2019-03-06 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 3/6/19 5:52 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > So would it be of value for me to fire up Debian buster or sid on a > PowerMac G5 here and do some testing? Not sure where you are getting > your Firefox from. Also is that the nightly builds? We're building stock Debian packages from unstable. Debian

Re: News about Firefox for PowerPC

2019-03-05 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 3/5/19 3:18 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 3/5/19 8:58 AM, aggaz wrote: >> Hello, browsing the mailing list archive I read that on December 2018 >> people with a Macintosh G5 was kindly asked to try Fedora and OpenSUSE >> to see if their GRUB works [1]. >> >> I was not member of the

Re: News about Firefox for PowerPC

2019-03-05 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 3/5/19 8:58 AM, aggaz wrote: > Hello, browsing the mailing list archive I read that on December 2018 > people with a Macintosh G5 was kindly asked to try Fedora and OpenSUSE > to see if their GRUB works [1]. > > I was not member of the list at the time, but now I am. I have a > PowerMac G5

Re: News about Firefox for PowerPC

2019-03-05 Thread aggaz
Hello, browsing the mailing list archive I read that on December 2018 people with a Macintosh G5 was kindly asked to try Fedora and OpenSUSE to see if their GRUB works [1]. I was not member of the list at the time, but now I am. I have a PowerMac G5 late 2005 and if this kind of help/test is

Re: Enable GRUB installation for powerpc/ppc64 Macs (was: Re: News about Firefox for PowerPC)

2018-12-21 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi Frank, On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 10:38 PM Frank Scheiner wrote: > > Hi Adrian, > > On 12/11/18 00:00, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > @Frank: Could you repost your patches for grub-installer rebased for the > > current > > version? Maybe also include the ofpath script from the

Enable GRUB installation for powerpc/ppc64 Macs (was: Re: News about Firefox for PowerPC)

2018-12-21 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Adrian, On 12/11/18 00:00, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: @Frank: Could you repost your patches for grub-installer rebased for the current version? Maybe also include the ofpath script from the yaboot package (download from

Re: News about Firefox for PowerPC

2018-12-12 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Christian (removing others who will read the reply on the ML) Christian Zigotzky wrote: > > Thanks for your reply. We get the error message 'Illegal instruction' > on the X5000. That means it doesn't start. Could you please compile it > without AltiVec (-maltivec -mabi=altivec)? I do not

Re: News about Firefox for PowerPC

2018-12-11 Thread Christian Zigotzky
On 11 December 2018 at 7:04PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote: Hi Christian! Christian Zigotzky wrote: Many thanks for ArcticFox! I successfully tested it on my AmigaOne X1000 today. (64-bit 1.8 GHz dual-core PWRficient PA6T-1682M PowerPC with AltiVec) Screenshot of ArcticFox on Fienix (32-bit

Re: News about Firefox for PowerPC

2018-12-11 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Christian! Christian Zigotzky wrote: Many thanks for ArcticFox! I successfully tested it on my AmigaOne X1000 today. (64-bit 1.8 GHz dual-core PWRficient PA6T-1682M PowerPC with AltiVec) Screenshot of ArcticFox on Fienix (32-bit Debian based distribution with a 64-bit kernel):

Re: News about Firefox for PowerPC

2018-12-10 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 12/11/18 12:00 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 12/10/18 6:23 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote: >> PS: Adrian, I hope you get out a new ISO soon, so I try reinstalling the >> iBook and test again :) I got the machine exactly for working on ArcticFox > > The problem is that we currently

Re: News about Firefox for PowerPC

2018-12-10 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 12/10/18 6:23 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > PS: Adrian, I hope you get out a new ISO soon, so I try reinstalling the > iBook and test again :) I got the machine exactly for working on ArcticFox The problem is that we currently don't have Yaboot in the archives which is required by the

Re: News about Firefox for PowerPC

2018-12-10 Thread Christian Zigotzky
On 10 December 2018 at 6:23PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote: Hi, swamprock wrote: Meanwhile, there is a fork of Pale Moon 27.x called Arctic Fox that can be used on 32-bit PowerPC-https://github.com/wicknix/Arctic-Fox/ More

Re: News about Firefox for PowerPC

2018-12-10 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, swamprock wrote: Meanwhile, there is a fork of Pale Moon 27.x called Arctic Fox that can be used on 32-bit PowerPC-https://github.com/wicknix/Arctic-Fox/ More info:https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/arctic-fox-web-browser-for-10-6-32-64-bit.2133051/ I need to chime in, being one of

Re: News about Firefox for PowerPC

2018-12-10 Thread swamprock
Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, December 10, 2018 10:41 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 12/10/18 4:37 PM, Christian Zigotzky wrote: > > > I am not sure if you know this website: > > https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/Porting/Firefox > >

Re: News about Firefox for PowerPC

2018-12-10 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 12/10/18 4:37 PM, Christian Zigotzky wrote: > I am not sure if you know this website: > https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/Porting/Firefox Nice. Looks like there hasn't been any work done on 32-Bit PowerPC yet though. In order to get Firefox working on 32-Bit PowerPC, someone needs to implement

News about Firefox for PowerPC

2018-12-10 Thread Christian Zigotzky
Hi All, I am not sure if you know this website: https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/Porting/Firefox Many thanks to all for Debian PowerPC! :-) I use it with pleasure on my AmigaOnes. Cheers, Christian