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  • From: JP Piers ( drinou ) <f5nlg AT tiscali.fr>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] Opera 7.10 beta, graphical browser stuff
  • Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 20:22:45 +0000

Download opera 5.0 , or 6.12 it works on slack 7.1 availlable on Opera's web
site other download

le Tue, 15 Apr 2003 14:09:57 -0400 (EDT)
sindi keesan <keesan2 AT cyberspace.org> écrit:

> > glibc 2.3 would fill the ramdisk, all by itself.
>
> Meaning about 4M? Even 8M would be acceptible, and a lot more useful than
> groff just to read man files.
>
> > > but it is probably acceptable on a 120M hard drive
> >
> > That is your decision; but, if you insist on installing
> > up-to-date versions of everything, you'll soon overflow
> > 120mb.
>
> I have no intention of installing 'everything' - if I did I would be using
> something like Redhat instead of BL ;) But one of my reasons for learning
> Linux is to be able to run Opera and it seems to need the new library, as
> do quite a few other precompiled programs. (I put someone to the trouble
> of installing Slackware 7.1 from CD with the old library so that someone
> else could compile Kermit specially for use by people who did not upgrade
> their libraries, and they recommended that I upgrade anyway because of
> some security patch). A newer library would also let me use programs from
> later versions of Slackware, such as a Lynx later than 2.3.
>
> I know in theory I could compile my own versions of some of these (not
> Opera) but the newer library will take up a lot less space than a
> compiler. Given a choice between a more useful library and X, I would
> choose the former. I have not yet found any X programs I want to run
> other than Opera. I do try to use the smallest possible tool for the job,
> but sometimes the smallest tool won't do the job.
>
> I will probably attempt a library upgrade before installing X. Wish me
> luck.
>
>
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Steven
> >
> >
>
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Ken wrote:
>
> Tiny-X looks good, but I certainly am in no position to
> build it!

To which Steven replied:
>
> The tiny-X package from Jean-Philippe might work.
> ------------------------------
> http://217.109.169.18/download
> ------------------------------
> I think it is a binary package (does not need compiling).

To which Neo Sze Wee replies:
>
> Yes, it is a binary of about 650kbytes. Unfortunately, it
> caused segment fault on my computer.





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