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> Sindi was going to direct me to the correct version of Opera 9.64.  I am 
going to try that version.


Please set your mail program to send plain text without UTF-8.  'mail' 
displays your one line of text as about 20 lines of garbage, and I had to 
switch to pine to read it.

Opera 9  uses about 50% more memory than 8.  9.6 more than 9.2.  See 
archives.

The Slackware 8.0/8.1/9.0 package is already in .tar.gz format and 
requires at least glibc 2.2.5 (found in my operalib.tgz package, taken 
from SW8.1)

SW9.0 uses 2.3.1, which Steven recommends since it is the last Slackware 
glibc which works with kernel 2.2.

The Opera 10 beta that I downloaded was not qt-static but there is now a 
qt-static 10 final DEB package (the same size as the shared packages, 
which is suspicious).  The SW9.1 and SW11.0 package are QT-shared, meaning 
you need libQt (which is large).  SW9.1  through 11 glibc need kernel 
2.4 (so does USB storage - cameras, flash drives).

When I checked off static QT and optionally also tar.gz and tried to 
download with links2, I got garbage instead of a download.  The shared 
packages would download. Using links2.  (Links 0.93 won't work with the 
links2 config).


If you have the memory for it, upgrade to glibc 2.3.6 from Slackware 11 
instead of 2.2.5 or 2.3.1, and also try Seamonkey 1.1.17 and Firefox 2 
(see my site for another library package).  Slackware 12 glibc requires 
kernel 2.6.  I posted several 2.4 kernels and modules for them.