Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 10:07:32 -0500 From: Justin Hibbits <chmeeedalf@gmail.com> To: Jason Bacon <bacon4000@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org" <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Mac G5 X11 performance Message-ID: <20190528100732.21200d05@titan.knownspace> In-Reply-To: <8d112285-674a-79a6-71dc-c90d82c8fc89@gmail.com> References: <d2621743-183e-d40b-71fe-6f14b30cd014@gmail.com> <8d112285-674a-79a6-71dc-c90d82c8fc89@gmail.com>
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On Tue, 28 May 2019 09:35:50 -0500 Jason Bacon <bacon4000@gmail.com> wrote: > Now that qt5-core is fixed, I was able to install x11/lumina. > > GUI performance is vastly better under Lumina than LXDE. > > It still snags fairly frequently when the system is under load, but > most of the time it's perfectly fine. > > Still no GL support, but I can live with that. > > If I could just get a full-featured browser and email client working, > I could actually sit at this machine for typical work. > I use claws-mail for my email client on my AmigaOne X5000, and it works well enough. Used it on my G5, too. Otter-browser "works", but crashes with large images and javascript (javascript can be disabled, so I did, but large images can't really be worked around). There's been chatter to port qt5-webengine to big-endian Linux, and shouldn't be hard to get on FreeBSD once that work is done. Firefox needs a lot of work as well. - Justin
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