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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. 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.

  2. Re:Not enough revert from free to proprietary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Unfortunately, Gecko is far too big and bloated for the OLPC. It doesn't run good at all on the machine, from what I've heard (even requiring extra memory to be installed), and frankly, I don't think it has its place there. Opera might not be the best choice since it's proprietary (although it's the perfect fit for such a device given the available resources), but perhaps something based on KHTML could have found its way to the OLPC.

    I think I'll post this anonymously... It's not good to bash Gecko on /. :(

  3. Most important image ;) by Nachtwind · · Score: 5, Interesting

    http://people.opera.com/howcome/2006/olpc/img/SH10 6875-m.JPG Yes, that thing can display slashdot. Just what the third world needs, more geeks!