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Opera Releases Stable FreeBSD Browser
1nsane0ne writes "The Register is reporting that Opera has released a production FreeBSD version. It appears to have fixed some of the problems that I found in a few hours of playing around with the betas and will be interesting to test a bit more."
It is my duty as a random Slashdot idiot to ask the following:
isn't BSD dead?
Very good to hear. I love my FreeBSD desktop dearly, and one of the last ties I had to enabling Linux compatibility was a release version of Opera. So far I have yet to find a better combination of
- low-profile,
- high speed, and
- functionality
in a single browser. Most of the other browsers I've come across were of the "choose any one of the above" variety. I've found niche uses for all of them, but Opera was the best choice on a old P75 for me."Who would think that a dead browser... "
Define dead. Percentage-wise, IE is the only browsezr that's alive.
Somehow they've found money to keep developing new versions of Opera, so I wouldn't be so quick to call it 'dead'.
"Derp de derp."
Maybe it's a Halloween/Zombie thing.
Dad, You killed the zombie Flanders! He was a zombie?
Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
-schussat
The hour of noon has passed. Let us go and get some Kentucky Fried Chicken.
I am glad to see Opera available to yet another platform. Perhaps Opera is trying to become the netscape of Unix-land.
Opera is a lot faster than Mozilla, and I think it is a prime browser. I've been using it off and on for almost 2 years (I knew a guy who was from Norway, and was huge on this browser even back then).
This is awesome. Way to go Opera. Congrats FreeBSD.
They stuck me in an institution, said it was the only solution, to...protect me from the enemy, myself
Feel free to chalk this up as a "BSD is dead post", but considering how few people use linux as a desktop, there must be 10 times less BSD desktop users. Really I'm not trying to troll, but there are just not nearly as many bsd desktop users as there are linux ones.
That said I'm surprised Opera would port for that small a user base, especially considering its a payware browser. I guess the same could have been said for Beos which never had a large user base.
Anyway good for Opera. Its too bad the other 99.999% of Desktop ISV's out there ignore any linux or nix, that isn't OSX. I keep waiting money in hand, but year after year they never come, Sigh.
If you wanna get rich, you know that payback is a bitch
Your average Slashdot poster is a zombie 365.25 days a year anyway. :)
Mmmmmmmmmarf, BRAINS!
That being said, as each day passes it's going to be harder and harder to pry Mozilla from my cold dead hands, especially with such great add-on software.
It's a shame that the IE VS Netscape war has made it almost impossible for most companies to make a living selling good browsers (or even email clients). I have no problem paying a reasonable amount of money for a quality product.
You don't want to pay for it? Fine. Use the advert version. Or don't use it at all.
Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
"...for that matter you could take freebsd itself... " ...please! *bad-dum-CHING!*
"Derp de derp."
Having Opera come out with a native browser for FreeBSD is a good thing but what is really needed is decent Java support.
Yahoo's reason for choosing PHP over Java/J2EE, is simply due to poor Java (especially threads) support in FreeBSD.
I am not using FreeBSD because Java support totally sucks compared to Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.
...that BSD is... no, no, it doesn't tell me that. It tells me that Opera must be very portable, since they wouldn't have invested too much effort on the *BSD desktop market. Really, I'm surprised that this required much effort at all since the BSDs run X and most of the major X-based desktops anyway. I mean, I can see how you'd have trouble porting from Windows to *NIX, but once you've ported to one *NIX, the rest shouldn't be that difficult unless you've shot yourself in the foot, which the Opera developers plainly haven't.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Since this is severly lacking, I thought I'd let you know how Opera actually works (you know, instead of just saying how happy/unhappy I am, that it exists).
I liked one think about the pre-release beta version... I didn't see any banner ads. It was likely accepting my Linux registration, despite not being the linux version.
The release (6.1) does not accept a Linux registration key, and you have to register all over again... Understandable, but still irritating.
That said, this is far better than the initial beta, or the Linux version under emulation. Just plain and simply, it is far more stable... I have yet to have it crash on me. Athough I've only been using it for a few hours, this is a very very good sign.
Additionally, I was previously unable to paste text from a webpage in Opera into AbiWord, and a couple other apps. That has now gone away, and the clipboard is working (mostly) as it should.
<RANT>
That's step one. Now all they have to do is *completely* redesign the interface and I'll be a happy Opera user. Since that's probably not in the cards, I'll continue to use Opera as little as possible.
</RANT>
Slashdot gets worse every day... Pipedot: News for nerds, without the corporate slant
a web browser for freebsd is like playing quake on my stereo. freebsd, just like every other non-Mac, non-Windows OS, belongs on a server that nobody ever logs in to.
As far as I can remember, Quake was designed and built on NeXT machines, BTW.
The minds behind the production of the current Mac OS are the types that would run something like FreeBSD as a desktop. It's those types that create. The types who share your attitude are the types that take whatever is given to them, are not creative and try to appear like they matter when all they're really good at is shooting shit in Quake.
War crimes, torture, lies, illegal spying... Would someone give Bush a blowjob, already, so he can be impeached?
Your average Slashdot poster is a zombie 365.25 days a year anyway. :)
/. user, that you've been around /. for a while. Taking into consideration leap "years" shows that you're one not to get caught out by /. loosers who rip to shreds any post that has too little information to convey the posters opinion absolutely completely. These /. loosers most often ram your own opinion down your throat as if it is thiers and nobody elses, as if you deserve it for not being quite verbose enough. They have a need to add and blow out of proportion the smallest and most irrelevant amount of information as if it is what matters most, in a pursuit to show everyone how much better they are than the original poster.
I can see, not just by your 5 digit user id or your accurate depiction of the average
I stand ready, poised for such a reply.
War crimes, torture, lies, illegal spying... Would someone give Bush a blowjob, already, so he can be impeached?
It is looking like there will be a bit of a delay for the Linux and BSD versions of Presto, until some time after the Windows release. That is probably why they are trying to get 6.1 as stable as possible- to gear up for 7.0.
Actually, I don't expect Presto to arrive on Linux until December or January, at the earliest.
I think it is as simple as there being many free software geeks at Opera, some like Linux, some like FreeBSD, and one of the FreeBSD geeks figured that Opera is easily portable, so it was just a matter for somebody to sit down and do a all-nighter to get it done. So, the answer to that question is probably: Just because we could.
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