[rescue] SS5/110

[Rich Kulawiec]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 08:17:45AM -0500, vance at neurotica.com wrote:
> Anyone know if an SS5/110 is fast enough to run Mozilla?

Yes.  I suspect, though, that I have more tolerance for slow performance
than perhaps other people do, so you really shouldn't take my word for it.

I use Mozilla for most browsing, but Amaya 7.2 (compiled from source) for
testing, because it's more rigorous: pages which work correctly there and
which pass "tidy" have a fighting chance of working with most browsers.
I also use dillo (compiled from source), Opera (binary), Netscape 4 and 7
(binary) and my favorite text-style browser, w3m (which IMHO beats the
pants off lynx).  On a SS5/110 the performance is adequate.  On a 5/170
with 128M, Solaris 9 and the GNOME desktop (albeit with the ICE window
manager), it's tolerable, but as others have observed, startup is slow
and tab-switching isn't speedy.

For comparison, on the 5/170 sitting next to it with 128M and OpenBSD 3.1,
also using the ICE window manager, Amaya is somewhat more responsive:
I haven't worked enough with dillo over there to get a feel for it yet.
As far as I know, Opera and Netscape aren't available for that platform,
and I have yet to try to compile Mozilla on it from source (I'm using the
nightly builds under Solaris).

---Rsk