Re: Opera Beta for Linux Released!

1999-12-28 Thread Onno
At 01:42 PM 12/24/99 -0500, Marcin Kurc wrote: It doesn't look stable yet to me: Maybe thats why it is beta ;-) Regards, Onno

Re: Opera Beta for Linux Released!

1999-12-28 Thread Onno
At 03:23 PM 12/24/99 -0700, Art Lemasters wrote: And what are the great points about Opera? Is it distributed under a GPL? THAT would be nice... Regards, Onno

Re: Opera Beta for Linux Released!

1999-12-28 Thread Nitebirdz
Art Lemasters, The main positive feature of Opera is how fast it is compared to any of the two major browsers in the Windows world. I just downloaded and installed the beta version for Linux, and it seems to be pretty fast too... as fast as the version for Windows. However, it is not

Re: Opera Beta for Linux Released! Slink...?

1999-12-28 Thread virtanen
On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Nitebirdz wrote: installed the beta version for Linux, and it seems to be pretty fast too... as fast as the version for Windows. Is it possible to install it to Slink? I tried, but couldn't get it working. hv [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Opera Beta for Linux Released! Slink...?

1999-12-28 Thread Erich Zigler
On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 07:05:10PM +0200, virtanen wrote: installed the beta version for Linux, and it seems to be pretty fast too... as fast as the version for Windows. Is it possible to install it to Slink? I tried, but couldn't get it working. I too installed it to the latest

Re: Opera Beta for Linux Released!

1999-12-25 Thread Matt Garman
On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 05:46:12PM -0500, Marcin Kurc wrote: pages Opera is just barely 2nd to IE and NS. Also in the development of the Linux version they developed a console version which can actually render pages with frames/tables intelligently. Something that Lynx, after years of

Re: Opera Beta for Linux Released!

1999-12-25 Thread Brian May
Matt == Matt Garman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Matt And there's another text-mode web browser called w3m, which Matt somewhat supports frames and tables. There is also w3, for (x)emacs, with similar claims. Its rendering doesn't seem very robust right now (often text appears invisible

Re: Opera Beta for Linux Released!

1999-12-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Friday, December 24, 1999, 2:46:12 PM, Marcin wrote: Try links. links - lynx-like alternative character mode WWW browser Thanks, looks decent. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the

Re: Opera Beta for Linux Released!

1999-12-24 Thread Phillip Deackes
EVCom Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this is slightly off topic, but according to slashdot.org, beta 1.9 of the Opera Web Browser has been released for Linux. It can be retrieved from: http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/www/browsers/opera-19991224.tar.gz Off-topic?!!! Not on

Re: Opera Beta for Linux Released!

1999-12-24 Thread Arcady Genkin
Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: EVCom Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this is slightly off topic, but according to slashdot.org, beta 1.9 of the Opera Web Browser has been released for Linux. It can be retrieved from:

Re: Opera Beta for Linux Released!

1999-12-24 Thread Marcin Kurc
It doesn't look stable yet to me: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/opera-19991224]$ ./opera MainWindow::buttonBarFull() MainWindow::statusBarTop() MainWindow::menu() MainWindow::scrollBars() MainWindow::localButtonBar() Segmentation fault [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/opera-19991224]$ ./opera MainWindow::loadAll()

Re: Opera Beta for Linux Released!

1999-12-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Friday, December 24, 1999, 10:42:02 AM, Marcin wrote: It doesn't look stable yet to me: *ROFL* Gotta love the irony [Snippage] running potato, upgraded yesterday. A /BETA/ version of a new program on an /UNSTABLE/ system and you're looking for stability? Oy. BTW, it worked

Re: Opera Beta for Linux Released!

1999-12-24 Thread Marcin Kurc
At the time I didn't have it installed on slink. Potato is stable enaugh to run anything else. Anyways, same stuff happens on slink. Btw, the key word there was _YET_. :) On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 11:04:34AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: Friday, December 24, 1999, 10:42:02 AM, Marcin wrote: It

Re: Opera Beta for Linux Released!

1999-12-24 Thread Art Lemasters
And what are the great points about Opera? Is it distributed under a GPL? Art -- Fathers' Rights Network http://www.hky.com/frn/frnhome.html

Re: Opera Beta for Linux Released!

1999-12-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Friday, December 24, 1999, 2:23:07 PM, Art wrote: And what are the great points about Opera? http://www.opera.com/ For me it is the fact that while the other browsers weigh in at 10Mb for their distribution Opera is a whopping 2Mb. For compatibility with the most pages Opera is just

Re: Opera Beta for Linux Released!

1999-12-24 Thread Marcin Kurc
On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 02:29:31PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: Friday, December 24, 1999, 2:23:07 PM, Art wrote: And what are the great points about Opera? http://www.opera.com/ [snip] pages Opera is just barely 2nd to IE and NS. Also in the development of the Linux version they