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It apparently reduces load on CPU; increasing the load on 'graphics'? https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/...um&sh=afd41b59 |
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Replying to an old thread, but hey anyone talking is a good thing right? after years of putting my N900 into the closet I decided to go back into it again.
I know you wont be able to get all those fancy today-era commercially supported apps but I don't honestly mind because with all the telemetry data gathering and all the privacy issues surrounding new mobile OSes and services I am glad to forego all the conveniences and go back to an era where the big guys hadn't even thought of the creepy things that they do these days. In short I'm going to go back to it and see where it will take me. Haha Besides if something is missing there is always a way to get it working on the N900 after all a bit of coding and tweaking here and there and I think it can be very useful in today's era |
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For someone to answer the firefox quantum idea!!!! :D:D:D |
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Accidentally made whole last week with N900, my phone was given to someone, and the delivery of Xperia X was delayed.
It is almost usable. Telegram worked with libpurple, Emails never had an issue with deprecation. The issues for me were Whatsapp, Cutetube, and tons of javascripts in today's Internet, but the last one was somehow usable with Opera. Keeping it as second phone. |
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During the past two days I tried to backport the Debian Sid package of Firefox 57 to Jessie for Easy Debian, but there are a lot of obstacles along the way: - a bunch of libs: easy - clang: solved - rust, cargo: probably solved - slight incompatibilities in FF's python build scripts with Jessie: arguably handled - FF dynamically changing its source code during the build process: maybe managable with tenacity I finally gave up when I concluded that I would most likely need to backport g++ 6, which would be a hell of a lot of work, assuming that it would work at all. I highly doubt that it would, because it basically has the same prerequesites as glibc, whose incompatibility with the old Maemo kernel is the reason why I can't upgrade Easy Debian beyond Jessie. I'm not saying that FF 57 is impossible to port to the N900 (with or without an inter layer like ED), but it's certainly not withing my skill set of mainly backporting Debian packages. |
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I am also curious about running Netsurf on Maemo, thank you. But it seems to be in early alpha stage. Quote:
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And yes, I couldn't understand .qf things too. My Maps are working. Probably didn't delete .qf file... Quote:
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I am not interested in alternative operating systems, desktop environments, or window managers; I am interested in apps, and ones well-integrated at that. It's frustrating when "Where" field of a Calendar even isn't connected to Maps. It's annoying when "Artist" in Music Player, or "Creator" in Photo Gallery, isn't connected to Contacts. It's terrible when I find it difficult, and nigh impossible, to see a Hildon (not Python, not Qt, not Gtk with its tiny buttons and menus) app for Maps, displaying streets and such as vectors (and buildings in 3D; and sky with up-to-date weather), and satellite or aerial as raster, at the same time, and capable of offline routing and turn-by-turn voice directions. Yes, I ask for a lot. It may be daunting; it may be inspiring. I am not offended by Qt by itself, but I think that Qt belongs with a Qt-based environment, such as KDE. I have nothing against Python, but Modrana, much as I find it to be the most usable map (and not just on N900 - I haven't seen a better map app anywhere) atm, looks very different from the rest of the desktop environment. Mussorgsky, also written in python, looks very similar to Hildon apps, but has some quirks with displaying a list of objects; sometimes, instead of displaying "A B C", it shows "A A C" or "A C C". I want a PDF viewer, simple and fast, which is written with Hildon, which can find text in pages, and which has a plugin for OCR recognition. Ideally, which can be used as PDF editor as well when needed - or, at least, to fill in forms. I want to unite Notes and Sketch in one app - and yes, it would be challenging. I want for Sketch to be able to save SVG files (eraser could be "deleter of elements" in SVG mode, just like it is "deleter of pixels" in raster mode). I want for united app to be able to save HTML files which include raster images and vector images, besides text and bullet points (and tables), and to have a button calling forward the browser (much like Camera has the button for Photos). I want for Sketch to be able to open a jpg file and use it as a background layer for drawing (either raster or SVG) on top of it, and then either flatten the layers together into one raster image, or have the two layers saved in one html file. I want a lot. I will hardly have time to do it myself. I can hope for developers to do it, but I don't expect them to make large steps. Just, if you can develop - do something, something you want to do; make time for it. And that's directed at myself, too - I did develop a few years ago, even though I am rusty. Thank you. Best wishes. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Per aspera ad astra... |
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Lately I haven't followed their work though. So I don't know how close they are to actually delivering a kernel. Quote:
Netsurf seems to be in bad shape in Debian though. It looks like its maintainer has vanished. So I wouldn't do any security-critical things with this netsurf build and I'm sceptical whether we will see more recent versions in Debian, which I would need as a base for backporting. Another option might be to have a look at Palemoon. I once tried to build ED packges for it based on Steve Pusser's repo, but I failed because he only releases for the x86 architectures and I didn't figure out how to port that to armhf. Regardless, even if I would have succeeded, I wouldn't have released these packages due to Palemoon's restrictive trademark policy. But I would have offered detailed instructions on how to repeat that build. I think the most practicable way would be if someone asked Steve to offer an armhf build on his own (including Jessie). |
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