On Friday 02 November 2018 23:08:52 David Wright wrote: > On Sat 27 Oct 2018 at 11:29:35 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > 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.. > > That explains why you run wheezy at all. But it doesn't explain why > you run a web browser on wheezy or on a computer that's required to > have good realtime performance. I thought you ran a LAN of computers > there. > I do, but except for an r-pi-3b running stretch, all the rest are running wheezy for the same reason. There is one stretch, a bare bones armbian running on a rock64. And this is the only machine with a comfy office chair in front of its keyboard. Thats in deference to the aches & pains of an 84 yo body. :(
> > > 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, > David. Thanks David. -- 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>
