Re: Arctic Fox 27.9.15 released and generic DMA mapping code for PPC machines

[Noah Wolfe <n.wolfe4@outlook.com>]

Hi Christian,

What is the recommended way to install Arctic Fox in Linux? All this time, I've just been running the binary within the folder. But this browser is so good, I want the system to recognize it as a full (installed) application.

Excellent work, you all.

N

On Sun, 2019-02-03 at 16:37 +0100, Christian Zigotzky wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Arctic Fox 27.9.15 has been released! :-)
>
> Arctic Fox is a fork of Pale Moon 27.9.4 that was released by Moonchild 
> Productions. The goal is to add security updates and bug fixes to keep 
> this browser updated for as long as possible for Intel OSX and PowerPC 
> Linux based systems. Arctic Fox is not affiliated with Pale Moon. It 
> based on an optimized layout engine (Goanna). Further information about 
> Goanna: http://www.moonchildproductions.info/goanna.shtml
>
> Change Log: https://github.com/wicknix/Arctic-Fox/wiki/Change-Log
>
> Support: 
> https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/arctic-fox-web-browser-for-10-6-32-64-bit.2133051/
>
> Downloads:
>
> Download 27.9.15 32-bit PowerPC G4/G5 (Ubuntu16/Debian9) Linux: 
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/11UKSwynpzgf6MKi0PN-ULgPpEAHXZAGe/view?usp=sharing
>
> Download 27.9.15 32-bit PowerPC G3 (no altivec) Linux: 
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bfp-LNvRQOe5UeB1n57_olBUm6A098MZ/view?usp=sharing
>
> Download 27.9.15 32-bit PowerPC (no altivec - Ubuntu14/Debian8) Linux 
> (contributed by xeno74): 
> http://www.xenosoft.de/arcticfox-27.9.15.linux-non-altivec-powerpc.tar.bz2
>
> Download 27.9.15 64-bit PowerPC (Fedora/OpenSuse/Debian) Linux 
> (contributed by xeno74): 
> http://www.xenosoft.de/arcticfox-27.9.15.linux-powerpc64.tar.bz2
>
> Screenshots:
>
> - 
> https://i.pinimg.com/originals/06/72/98/0672980cd5cbab103d9a11ab72664c76.png
> - https://ibb.co/g41Rjpw
> - https://ibb.co/Qrz5G0y
> - 
> http://www.skateman.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Screenshot-at-2019-02-03-101901.png
>
> Please test it.
>
> BTW, the kernel developers want to use the generic DMA mapping code for 
> PowerPC machines. They modified the source code for testing. Maybe they 
> want to add it to the kernel 5.1.
>
> Gitweb: 
> http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc.git/shortlog/refs/heads/powerpc-dma.6
>
> git clone git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc.git -b powerpc-dma.6 a
>
> Thread about using generic DMA mapping code in powerpc: 
> https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2019-February/184847.html
>
> Please compile a kernel from the Git 'powerpc-dma.6' and test it because 
> there are some problems exist with booting and devices.
>
> Cheers,
> Christian