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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

Opera 7.54 is now out for Slackware 8.0/8.1, 9.0, or 9.1.  7.23 was 
available for glibc 2.2.5 (SW81) and works on BL2 if you upgrade to that 
library.  It is somewhat buggy but does not keep crashing like 6.05 did.
(One interesting bug, at least in the Windows version, was that it displays
in 256 colors if you set to 64K, in 16 if you set to 256).

7.54 is available for more platforms, including Redhat 6.2, which I think 
uses glibc2.1.3, same as Slackware 7.1, or is this a slightly newer 
version?  Therefore if you use the slackware rpm installer it ought to 
work on BL2 without the library upgrade.  Anyone want to test this?

I saw nothing obviously for libc5 (BL3).

They claim some additional javascript capabilities (7.23 shows a blank 
page instead of my bank website, even lynx does it better!) and bug fixes 
and better security.  Also more features in email and RSS newsfeed and 
various decorations.

8.0 beta is still for Windows only.

I cannot download from driverguide with lynx (the image you need to read 
is a .php file) or link2 graphical (something about POST not available) 
but Opera works.  We just discovered if you get the exact CD-ROM driver 
(.sys file) DOS no longer spends 10 seconds during boot looking at our 
Samsung quad speed drive like it does if you use oakcdrom.sys (also the 
other drivers tend to be smaller - I am using nec-cdrom.sys on two 
others).  Linux seems to identify all these drives faster than DOS.

Other than Mozilla/Firefox, is anyone using another linux (BL-compatible) 
graphical browser which works at driverguide?

keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
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