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  • Subject: [BL] Opera 10 - was Re: Is this better?
  • Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 12:53:00 +0000 (UTC)



Sindi Keesan wrote

7-bit ascii - perfect!

I am writing this mail via AOL mail but running the latest version of
Puppy Linux. Browser is Seamonkey.

AOL mail is very fussy about its browsers - does it work at all with Opera? I suggest fastmail.fm - works with any browser, free for 10MB, and if you don't view images, you don't see the adds.

If Puppy works you have enough RAM for Opera 9.64. Slackware 8.0-9.0 package uses the same libraries as Opera 9.2 so just download it and unpack on /, cd to /opera-9.64* and opera to start it. You can compare the two versions that way (instead of installing).

I still would like to get Opera 9.64 installed for my BL 3.5 setup. Or
would 10.00 be usable? The Opera site keeps asking me if I want to
upgrade to 10.00. Would the Links2 browser in -g mode be better to
navigate the Opera Download site?

I use lynx (text-only) at the opera site. Ignore the upgrade messages.
Set Opera to start up with the last page accessed instead of their page.

Do you need some feature from Opera 10.0?

Opera 10 needs a recent glibc (SW9.1 or later) and also a recent version of libQt (which needs a recent glibc unless you compile your own).
BL3.5 is unlikely to work with it.

I tried to upgrade BL3 to glibc 2.3.6 from SW11, and it broke everything. Consider using BL2 instead since you have plenty of memory. It will work nicely in 48MB with Mozilla-based browsers. BL2 already uses a later X than BL3, but you can also upgrade libX11 if some program does not work.

Steven suggests stopping at Slackware 11 because it uses kernel 2.4, and later Slackwares require 2.6. Kernel 2.4 supports USB storage. There is probably some recent hardware than needs kernel 2.6.

SW11 glibc 2.3.6 works with Seamonkey/Firefox and kernel 2.4. The contributed GTK-1 Seamonkey 1.1.17 GTK-1 at the Seamonkey site works (unpack and run it from its own directory, choosing navigator only), as does GTK-1 Firefox 1.5 (see archives or my site) and Firefox 2.0 from DSL linux (install DSL and copy over the files to a firefox directory - it would take me an hour to post). Firefox sometimes works where Seamonkey fails.

If you get BL2 working with Opera 10 (QT-shared) tell us how.



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