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 They are hopelessly out of
date as far as the Mac OS are concerned!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




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