[openbeos] Re: Firefox in Haiku gcc4
- From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:17:25 +0100 CET
> > Thanks to Ryan Leavengood's help on setting up crosscompiling
> > from Linux we should soon be able to provide you with Firefox2
> > builds specifically built for Haiku and gcc4. I guess
> > productivity will go down (or up) :)
>
> I am a web programmer working from home, and if we could get Firefox,
> Pe, Apache, and PHP fully working, I could actually switch to Haiku
> as
> my main working platform.
>
> I'd have to run it via VMware (since it won't run on my laptop), and
> I'd
> still have to switch back to Windows to check things out on IE, but
> it'd
> be pretty cool to be able to actually be productive on Haiku.
>
> On the other hand, Be still runs on my old desktop, and I suppose
> eventually I could run Haiku on that machine and connect via VNC from
> my
> laptop...
>
> Pe was recently discussed; does anyone know whether Apache and PHP
> will
> compile and run in Haiku? And whether I can get to localhost even if
> networking is not fully functional?
>
Apache I don't know, but I suppose RobinHood could give less trouble
trying.
And it should support PHP so that'll buy you some time.
Maybe we should actually put RobinHood in svn (with a simpler
configuration interface à la PoorMan) ?
François.
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