ken mays <[email protected]> wrote on Thu, 13 Aug 2015 11:14:15 +0000 (UTC):
> > Also, after what Peter said, here are the current porting efforts of > the newer Firefox releases to OI-hipster: > > 1. Firefox 40.0 - Reviewed yesterday for porting. Passed all > dependency checks. In progress. Porting efforts based on pkgsrc > (ryo). See:?http://pkgsrc.se/www/firefox > 2. Firefox 38.2.0esr - porting to OI-hipster. In progress. Main > production workflow effort. > 3. Firefox 37 - ported and tested by Martin Bochnig, OpenSXCE. > See: > http://openindiana.org/pipermail/openindiana-discuss/2015-March/017390.html > 4. Firefox 31.8.0esr - ported and tested by Oracle. OI-hipster > specific test builds are still in oi-dev testing phase. > > Thanks for asking, Ken > I am running Solaris 11.2 on one of my computers, the latest version of Solaris available for download from Oracle (at least, as of a month ago, when I downloaded and installed it). It comes with Firefox ESR 17.0.11. As far as I can tell, it works fine, I am completely satisfied with it. Why is it important to get Firefox 40.0 (this is not a rhetorical question, I want to know)? What I would really like to get -- not as a replacement for Firefox, but to supplement it -- is Chrome. How come I never see anyone discussing porting Chrome? It is, after all, an open-source product. Hasn't anyone else been interested in getting Chrome working on OpenSolaris-derived systems? And, speaking of OpenSXCE (from which one can apparently obtain a working version of Firefox 37) -- there was a huge amount of discussion on this mailing list a while back about OpenSXCE. I do not want to re-awaken those sleeping threads, I truly do not want to read any more postings about whether the man who gave us OpenSXCE is irredeemably and irretrievably antisocial, or whether it is moral to donate money to someone whose political sympathies lie with people who blow up schoolbuses. I just have one question, which is, why do people care so much? As far as I can tell, OpenSXCE is a closed-source OS, is it not? I recall seeing a whole lot of postings where people were pleading with the man who gave us OpenSXCE to open up the source, and he was refusing, and please let us not reopen the debate about whether his reasons were intelligible, but am I right that OpenSXCE is currently closed-source? If so, why would anyone want it? Just because it has Firefox version 37? Is Firefox version 37 really so much better than Firefox 17.0.11? It seems to me, that if I'm going to run a closed-source OpenSolaris-derived OS, it may as well be Solaris. I'm running Solaris 11.2, as I said before, and "zpool upgrade -v" goes up to 35, including things like encryption and sharing with inheritance, and "zfs upgrade -v" goes up to 6, which is multilevel file system support, I have no idea what that is but it must be wonderful. I understand not wanting to run a closed-source OS, but if you're going to, shouldn't one prefer Solaris? What am I missing? Jay F. Shachter 6424 N Whipple St Chicago IL 60645-4111 (1-773)7613784 landline (1-410)9964737 GoogleVoice [email protected] http://m5.chicago.il.us "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur" _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
