On 5/25/19 4:00 AM, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
Hi,
On 5/23/19 8:19 AM, John Gould wrote:
Can someone suggest a modern graphical browser for OpenBSD PowerPC?
I'm trying to run
several G5's and g4 mini's on 6.5 as desktop machines. The basic
install works really well but there doesn't seem to be an up to date
graphically browser.
It's thanks to all the work the devs have put into OpenBSD powerpc
that these machine are still very usable. They are hopelessly out of
date as far as the Mac OS are concerned!
you might try ArcticFox, it has a decent success on Linux PowerPC.
Several endianness fixes were imported.
It is not "totally" modern, but still more modern than Dillo. Beware
that you need at least 1G of RAM to be of decent use with modern
websites, 2GB is better.
Although it is of PaleMoon heritage and thus Linux/Mac heritage, I
fixed compilation on NetBSD, OpenBSD and lately even FreeBSD compiles
out of the box.
Beware however, that while perfectly usable on older x86, it has no
working JIT, so JS intensive websites will be slow on PowerPC. Also
compilation on OpenBSD/ppc was never attempted by me, only on
Linux/PPC. OpenBSD amd64 however does work.
Riccardo
[1] : Official Repo: https://github.com/wicknix/Arctic-Fox
[2] : My current working fork, which gets regularly pulled into main:
https://github.com/rmottola/Arctic-Fox
If you're going down that path, you should see if you can get TenFourFox
to compile. TenFourFox does have a jit and supports altivec.
http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/
https://github.com/classilla/tenfourfox
