‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Saturday, October 27, 2018 8:29 AM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:
> On Saturday 27 October 2018 11:03:56 Matthew Crews wrote: > > > 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. > Gotcha, I suspected it was something like that. I personally wouldn't connect such a device to the internet unless I had to, or if I had firewalls configured correctly. But I'm going to assume you know what you're doing in that regard :) I would prepare for the inevitable time when a Chromium-based web browser simply becomes unsupported on i386. Also I was incorrect about Wheezy support. It still has commercial Extended LTS support for another seven months. https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Extended Looks like the LinuxCNC folks will need to plan on migrating to a later version of Debian soon.