Mozilla-Firebird's distribution neutrality

Mozilla-Firebird's distribution neutrality

Posted Feb 5, 2004 15:10 UTC (Thu) by Max.Hyre (subscriber, #1054)
In reply to: exchange listings only, please by ccyoung
Parent article: Building A Better Browser (Forbes)

I expect (based on no evidence) that's because Forbes is just passing on release info from the Mozilla Project, and it'll run under any reasonably-recent GNU/Linux.

FWIW, Debian has it packaged in (at least)

Versions: 0.7-7 [alpha, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc],
0.7-6 [arm, m68k, s390, sparc]

A brief examination of the changelog and a few files' diffs turns up only changes to

• extend the range of architectures, and
• fix bugs & make improvements.

I.e.: No strictly Debian-distribution changes jump out at you. Therefore, it's probably almost trivial to adapt the original to any distribution you care to use. It certainly Just Works on my [Debian/testing] system.

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