From: Burke, Gary : GIG IS&T (Gary.Burke at domain guinness.com)
Date: Wed 05 Jul 2000 - 13:04:47 IST
I have tried an earlier release of the Linux Opera browser, and it didn't
support proxies. Hence, at the time, it was useless to me in work. I use
the win32 version in work as much as I can. Some sites didn't work too well
because of the Java and Javascript problems. However, these have all been
fixed up in Opera 4. Opera 4 even uses the SUN JRE for Java, so you can
always have the latest version of Java running on your browser - in
contrast, IE5 only supports Java 1.1.7.
There are a few problems with Opera 4 that I find here, but it could be due
to the proxy. I have to check it at home at some stage.
Be warned though. Opera is one of the few browsers that is not free. It's
not too expensive though, at $30, I think, and does have a 30 day evaluation
period. It's not crippleware until after the 30 days, at which time you can
only access www.opera.com
Gary
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Nicholls [SMTP:David.Nicholls at domain ashling.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 12:33 PM
> To: ilug at domain linux.ie
> Subject: RE: [ILUG] Linux on a 486 laptop without CD- drive ?
>
>
> Has anyone tried Opera on Linux yet ?
>
> I belive their claim to fame is a small footprint browser.
>
> www.opera.com
>
> Also does anyone think its possible to do a command line graphical web
> browser for Linux?
> i.e. one that does not suffer the overhead of X.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rik Dunphy [SMTP:Rik.Dunphy at domain motorola.com]
> Sent: 05 July 2000 10:46
> To: ndowney at domain silverstorm-ireland.net
> Cc: ilug at domain linux.ie
> Subject: Re: [ILUG] Linux on a 486 laptop without CD- drive ?
>
>
> >
> > - Are the current distributions the best ones to use on what is a
> > slow machine, with a small HD (not sure of size here and now) and
> > only 8/16 M RAM ?. Any recommendations as to which distribution
> > and version would suit best ?.
> >
> > - I really only want to use the machine as an Internet box (email
> > and web). Thus I need X and netscape and of course a modem. Is
> > there any issues I have missed ?
> >
> This is the crux of your problem I think. Running netscape and X on an 8M
> or 16M box is going to be very slow. (If I remember rightly running X on
> anything under 12M is almost impossible to use).
>
> As for harddisk space, it all depends on what you really need.
>
> Since you've no real method of getting a CD onto the laptop maybe you
> should consider one of the single disk distributions which can be run off
> the floppy. I'm sure they can then be easily made to run off a small
> harddisk with some effort.
>
> Some to check out are
> Linux On A Floppy http://loaf.ecks.org/
> tomsrtbt http://www.toms.net/rb/
> and my favourite
> mulinux http://sunsite.auc.dk/mulinux/
>
> mulinux has several addon disks for X-windows, etc..
>
> Hope that helps
> RikD
>
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