On Saturday 27 October 2018 11:03:56 Matthew Crews wrote: > -------- Original Message -------- > On Oct 27, 2018, 06:58, Curt wrote: > > On 2018-10-27, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> Might be nice, but several of the dependecies can only be satisfied > >> if on stretch, and the curl command lines don't work on wheezy. At > >> all. > > > >At any rate a curl command line that proves > >inoperable on Wheezy arouses > >the interest of even the most jaded observer. > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but Wheezy is no longer supported, and Jessie > is barely supported. Except as a curiosity, why would you want to use > a web browser on Wheezy these days?
Because its main application (LinuxCNC) is married to a 32 bit install, wheezy ATM. I understand a stretch version is being worked on, but the increased latency involved in a 64 bit context switch is very very hard to tolerate on real machinery. Real time kernels that actually work are virtually non-existant on 64 bit machinery. I have one that almost works on armhf, but it loves to throw away mouse and keyboard events, but that goes away, or gets worse if you reboot. And a good reboot is good till the next power bump on that machine, running Jessie.. > Especially when the expectation of > security updates and compatible software for modern web browsing is > nearly, if not completely, zero. Its certainly getting that way. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
