Re: What is Firefox on Debian Stretch nearest future?

2018-09-23 Thread Marcelo Lacerda
I had similar problems with firefox being slow, it was mostly restricted to some websites and it was related to how the rendering worked, very long pages with lots of visual elements tended to make the scroll extremely slow. Couple that with the fact that the content of the tabs could crash the mai

Why is libc updated every time there's an update to the kernel

2018-08-15 Thread Marcelo Lacerda
I know that the kernel and libc are deeply integrated but I imagine that a security update to it doesn't actually change anything to libc source code, so why do the two of them always upgrade together?

Re: apt-get vs. aptitude

2013-10-14 Thread Marcelo Lacerda
On 10/13/2013 02:31 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 06:04 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 02:56:13AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2013-10-12 at 19:40 -0400, Tom H wrote: I suspect that the problem's in the examples above are simply PEBKAC. Likely, si