[geeks] Needed: A good sparc workstation

Jonathan Groll lists at groll.co.za
Mon Mar 9 05:04:36 CDT 2009


On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 11:31:15PM -0400, Joshua Boyd wrote:
>BTW, I wouldn't call 4 gigs a small capacity, which is what my U80  
>has.  I don't recall who said that above, and I suppose a U60  
>probably only goes to 2 gigs, which I still wouldn't call terribly  
>small.  Despite the 4 gigs, the U80 still runs Firefox sluggishly.  I  
>want to see a good GNOME (or KDE, or XFCE, I don't care) webkit browser.

Is the sluggishness worse with Firefox(FF)3 than FF2? I'm not
convinced yet that FF3 is ready for olde sparc machines.

Cheers,
Jonathan



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