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On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Getting back to this project a bit more now. I envision the machine in
> question being used almost solely for web browsing. Perhaps a game of
> Freecell or Solitaire would be the only other use this machine would see.
> Loading Opera on there would be imperative. So, I can expect problems
> running Opera under a user account on BL 3.5, correct? If I use BL 3, I
> should use only as high as version 8 of Opera, but avoid version 9? The
> machine will have an ethernet connection to the 'net, btw, so no need for
> the user to dial or use rxvt.

You need to put on at least glibc 2.2.5 for Opera 8 or 9 so you may as 
well use 9.  My biggest problem with 'user' was dialing.  rxvt uses ttyp? 
and I think it needs to be user writeable.  Insert the NIC modules in rc. 
You need a copy of what is in /root/.opera in /home/usr/.opera with 
correct permissions.  I copied and changed permissions.  I think Opera is 
designed for each user to install it individually.  The only trouble I had 
running 9 as user was if I did not run install.sh, but used opera from the 
directory I unpacked it into (which was possible with earlier versions).

> So far as loading BL 2 on here, I'd like to use Xvesa rather than a fuller
> X: is that advisable and/or possible with BL2?

I have been using it with BL2 for years already.  Before BL3 existed.

> Hopefully I'll be able to finish this project over Christmas break. I'll
> undoubtedly have more questions between now and early Jan. Thanks for the
> input so far.

Feel free to email me directly.  I would like to get this working too.
Sindi

> James