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Re: Why porting Mozilla to Amiga??
« on: June 03, 2003, 04:06:00 PM »
Why port trolltech's QT library and not just port GTK?
if you really want widgets, that is....

in the end, that's not so important.  I've said before you can run linux/m68k in a box.  Just like you can run A/UX under fusion, you could do the same with linux.

Then you have mozilla running in a window under Amiga OS...dog friggin slow as it is...and they don't require mozilla, but you can choose from another gecko based browser...one that is a bit lighter, a little faster...still slow, of course.

Now...you get this box working as spiffily as possible and do some neat things, a-la Amithlon hiding the linux kernel...just make it a 'mozilla box'....make it as light as possible....and then write an accelerated graphics driver...thats the key point, of course, and the reason linux/m68 is so slow, is the graphics drivers are not planar.

anyway, this is a realistic way to get mozilla running under Amiga OS....running very slowly....

but running mozilla on Amiga hardware, ALREADY DONE.
running Unix in a box on Amiga OS, ALREADY DONE

speeding things up, cleaning it up, REASONABLE TASK

I like the fact, that you all are such naysayers....




 

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Re: Why porting Mozilla to Amiga??
« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2003, 04:16:35 PM »
btw

did I mention A/UX runs under fusion.
Amaya runs on Amiga already (has an A/UX port).

Now...amaya is buggy crap not worth the download.

nothing will make a 50MHz machine anything but
a 50MHz machine...but having a browser as good
as what other 50MHz machines once had, is still
a possibility, imho.