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Opera Running on the OLPC

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the music-in-the-strangest-of-places dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Opera developers have ported their browser to the $100 laptop. Håkon Wium Lie writes: 'Seeing Opera run on the OLPC for first time was a revelation — no browser has ever been more beautiful. The resolution of the screen is stunning (200dpi) and Opera makes the most of the embedded DejaVu fonts.' Claudio Santambrogio writes: 'Opera runs beautifully on it. The machine is not really the fastest, but Opera's performance is excellent — the browsing experience is beautifully smooth: all sites load fine and quickly, and even complex DHTML pages with heavy animations do not suffer.'"

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  1. Opera is better on any system by CDMA_Demo · · Score: 4, Informative

    For those who don't know, Opera has been the browser of choice for embedded platforms like Qtopia because of it speed and small footprint. I'm glad to see its full potential finally realized.

  2. Re:screen is stunning? by crow5599 · · Score: 5, Informative

    The OLPC's screen has a black and white 200dpi mode. I imagine that has something to do with the price.

  3. mirror by davek · · Score: 4, Informative

    The site has a robots.txt that doesn't allow a quick mirror. I had to cut-y-paste the image links into a terminal and use wget for each one.

    http://6thstreetradio.org/~davek/olpc/

    The 4 images are there, though, which is probably what most people want.

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  4. Re:Why not konqueror? by chill · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, it is not. The Konqueror-Embedded project has had a working browser for some time. It does require QT or QT/Embedded, but then again so does the version of Opera they were testing.

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