Re: Opera for Linux
When I first commenced this thread three days ago,
my intentions were two-fold. Firstly, the need to
scout for a suitable replacement for my out of date
Netscape 4.51. Secondly, because of a lot of hype
in our local WIA / WAP hardware circuits (and else-
where in Asia I suppose) on the prospects of Linux
entering the WIA / WAP arena here, (which as of now
is a monopoly of M$) with the Opera for Linux as
the main browser!
I am attaching a clipping from Issue 59 of Linux
Gazette (Nov 2k) for those interested.
It is my gut feeling, that there will be more Linux
desktops using Opera as the prime browser within
the next one year than one can expect ..
I feel happy that Linux is now a main stream OS and
commercial enterprises are opening up all over the
world.
I am sure licensing aspects (closed source), would
perhaps be against the very ethos of all true GNU/
Linux loyalists. But that's the way the world is !
Surely, organised projects cannot survive without
recourse to a source of revenue.
Today is my second day I am using the beta .. Opera
is surely a thing to look out for ........ and very
soon too, if they want to take on M$ in the WIA/
WAP market!
USM Bish
<clip> ------------------------------------- [LG Issue 59] ------
Sept. 25, 2000: Opera Software, PalmPalm Technology Inc., and
Trolltech announce the formation of a strategic alliance for
the Asian wireless Linux market. The companies will jointly
develop "Linux Total Solution for Wireless Internet Appliance"
for hardware manufacturers in the wireless Internet space.
Linux Total Solution for Wireless Internet Appliance consists of
Opera's "Opera for Linux" Web browser, Trolltech's "Qt/Embedded,"
an embedded GUI environment and windowing system, integrated with
PalmPalm's "Tynux," a Linux Operating System optimized for the
wireless Internet. This is to provide a complete embedded Linux
solution for wireless Internet devices.
</clip> ---------------------------------------------------------
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 11:18:55PM +0100, Kristian Rink wrote:
> Obviously Phillip Deackes <gsmh@gmx.co.uk> thinks that:
>
> > I have been waiting for Opera for Linux for *ages* and am very pleased
> > indeed with what I have seen of the second beta.
>
> Hmmmm, my $0.02 is that I am running (Debian) GNU/Linux for 99.95%
> because of the licensing and distribution policies and ethics, so
> Opera as another closed-source commercial application is not an
> option to me...
>
> > Mozilla is just not usable at the moment
> > and although it gets better with each nightly build it is still very
> > fragile on my system.
>
> Well, I found M18 to work fine, even though I heard (and saw) that
> the M$ Windows release of this browser works faster, and seems that
> Netscape6 PR3 (for whichever reasons) in Linux also seems to be a
> little faster than 'native' Mozilla... Personally, at the moment I am
> using the Skipstone browser rendering sites with M18 through
> gtkmozembed, and I am *very* pleased with this system (especially since
> I don't need the mailer and newsreader and composer stuff of Netscape
> but really just a plain browser). And, if speed matters, what do I
> have lynx and links for? :)))
>
> > Opera seems already robust. It has a nice interface and I would be very
> > happy to use it as my interface with the web. Nowadays a web browser is
> > so important and it really ought to be *the* best application on the OS.
>
> Even though I agree on that statement, getting back on that licensing
> stuff, I *hardly* can imagine Opera being *the* best application in
> this OS, because the way this product is distributed and brought to
> the customers totally conflicts *everything* Linux stands for... from
> that point of view, I rather would wait for a Netscape 12 one day
> (which then hopefully displays secure xxxxml and each of the thousand
> proprietary media-plug-ins we will have to face, in the year 2010)
> than consider using Opera on my system.
>
> > Netscape is well known as being one of the worst Linux apps.
>
> True, sadly... As already mentioned, try to get Yourself Mozilla and
> use one of those lighter browsers (galeon, skipstone) on top of it,
> or use lynx for fastest information retrieval in worldwide web....
> KDE-Konqueror seems to be fine, as well...
>
> Regards,
> Kristian
>
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