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Opera 10.01 is available for Debian 4.0 which is glibc 2.3.6, also used by 
Slackware 11.  If you upgrade to SW11 glibc and add a few other libraries 
(I posted a package of the essential), Firefox 1.5 and 2.0 (from DSL 
linux) and Seamonkey 1.1.17 (from their site, GTK1) will be usable and 
Opera 10 might work.

The Debian 4.0/5.0 Opera 10 package is 9.5MB and the Debian Static QT 
version (does not say for which Debian) version 9.4MB.  The former is 
QT-shared.  The 'static' QT version still won't download for me with 
links2 as a file, just as gibberish. Use Opera 9 for the download.
With luck the static version will use the same glibc.

You can choose default package or .tar.gz or .tar.bz2, but choosing 
.tar.bz2 still gets you the .deb version, gcc3qt3 which I hope is static 
or includes libqt.so.

Ubuntu 8.0 and SuSe 10.3 Opera packages are probably for later glibc.
Most other OS's have only one package, probably for recent glibc.

An opera forum says all the builds are now libqt shared, but the 
non-shared ones ones include libqt itself. Some OS's have a smaller 
package (8.1MB vs 9.6MB) which probably does not include libqt.

qt3 uses its own fonts, so Opera 9.64 may be using 'core X fonts' which in 
our case would be Xvesa fonts (a very small selection not matching what 
you think you are choosing).

The ldd from Slackware 8.1 could not handle a (Slackware?) Opera 10beta 
(qtshared), giving some odd error message.  Puppy 4.3 ldd said it needed 
only libqt.  Please could someone with glibc 2.3.6 and broadband try the 
Debian Static QT. Unpack with ar -x package.deb cd / tar -zxvf data.tar.gz 
cd opera-10* ./opera

The neighbor's deck where I can download at 30K/sec is now below freezing.

Sindi