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Originally Posted by sulu View Post
Not gonna happen.

Antix (like Kali) is just another Debian derivative. It might have a very performance-saving pre-selection of packages, but there's nothing you can do with Antix that you couldn't do with a custom Debian setup (which ED has always been). So where Debian fails, Antix will fail.
Also, Antix only releases for the x86 architectures.

The reason why I haven't released an Easy Debian Stretch image is because Stretch comes with glibc 2.24 and this glibc hard-requires a recent(ish) kernel. Maemo's 2.6 kernel certainly doesn't do it anymore, even with tweaks. [1]

So unless someone gets a recent glibc-compatible kernel running for Maemo, there will be no updated chroots.

There might be a remote chance of setting up a chroot that is not based on glibc but on musl, because afaik musl still supports 2.6 kernels.
This however won't be practicable with typical desktop distributions like Debian, but would likely be done on top of some embedded distro like openwrt or Alpine.
I'm not familiar with those, so I don't know how hard it would be to equip them with an xserver and a browser.

Other than that I suggest you try to sort out the problems in netsurf on Maemo [2] if you want a recent browser.

Edit:
Another way out of this dilemma would be if someone worked out what difference between glibc 2.23 and 2.24 [3] is responsible for the latter no longer working on ancient kernels and patched that back into 2.24 while keeping the added functionality of 2.24 over 2.23.
That someone is certainly not me.


[1] https://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?...postcount=3257
[2] https://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=96579
[3] https://fossies.org/diffs/glibc/2.23_vs_2.24/
The Fremantle Porting Task Force is making progress with running newer kernel (4.6?) on Nokia N900. Which would mean newer glibc, and make updating chroots possible?

I am also curious about running Netsurf on Maemo, thank you. But it seems to be in early alpha stage.

Originally Posted by wicket View Post
A website that doesn't use JavaScript to automatically call google-analyitics.com which helps Google to track visitors.

Very ironic. Thankfully I have a browser plugin which protected me.
Browser plugin is likely the best answer to modern huge and slow websites. That, or https-compatible trusted proxy. Or ssh -X onto a Linux server.

Originally Posted by Zeta View Post
Talking about irony, take care of what your plugins (like "web of trust"...) may be leaking too :
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/a...ally-anonymous
Amusing. I tend to not install plugins until I know exactly what they do. I don't install plugins just for beautiful words such as "Web of Trust".

Originally Posted by DDark View Post
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.
Tons of javascript may be a problem. Some of it may be solved by give-mee-no-ads-cli aka /etc/hosts adblocking . I am mostly using MicroB, sometimes (like 1%) Fennec 17.

Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
Exchange works for me but in somewhat curious way. It only syncs automatically when it first enters the peak period at 6am, and then only when the network changes, for example from WiFi to 3G or vice versa. If I stay on WiFi all day then the first sync at 6am remains the only one. A manual sync works any time.

I had a case of Maps not starting too. The cause was a missing file .qf in MyDocs root. I overzealously deleted it thinking I would not need it.
I switched from ActiveSync to IMAP for my outlook. Lately, my mail doesn't seem to work - probably taking up too much space on /home partition.

And yes, I couldn't understand .qf things too. My Maps are working. Probably didn't delete .qf file...

Originally Posted by endsormeans View Post
" and hope to have a solution for it's browsers in the near future. "

There are 5 options.

#2- Research and look at the effort it takes to build a browser...
If you think you can handle it ...go for it.

#3- Better still...
READ the helpful posts of those who have managed to make the browser slightly more functional....apply their wisdom and tweak what you have so that it gains a tiny bit more usability.

So ..choice is yours...

you can be reactive and you can wait and hope all you wish...

or you can be proactive and do something about it.
I like options #2 and #3.

Originally Posted by azkay View Post
How is lack of 4g a problem? It would only be a problem if 3g was shut down
3G Telstra network here is virtually useless for Nokia N900 because Telstra heavily relies on 3G 850MHz band, apparently.

Originally Posted by endsormeans View Post

Dillo and dooble are great....and for search there is the staid old..."Duck Duck Go"

Simple and clean.
Yes, I would love it if there was a simple and easy way to change MicroB's search from Google to DuckDuckGo or something else. Not just about:config setting, but image-icon, too.

And yes, I like http://****website.com/

Thank you. Best wishes.
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