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Opera 10.0 Released, With Integrated Web Server Functionality
sherl0k writes "Opera 10.0, dubbed Opera Unite, has been released. Built into the Web browser is a full-fledged Web server, complete with nifty little gadgets such as a 'fridge' that people can post notes onto, a chat room, a widget to stream your music library anywhere, and a built-in file-sharing mechanism. It also scores 100/100 on the Acid3 test."
Readers fudreporter and TLS point to The Register's report on the new release and a
5-minute video demo, respectively. Update: 06/16 15:18 GMT by T: Roar Lauritzsen of Opera Software writes to point out that "release" isn't quite the right word here; though you can download it, version 10.0 is still in beta, and the version with Unite is a labs (experimental) release.
Does it look Mac-like yet?
I installed opera once, then I went to a webpage and it didn't load. Then I unistalled it and never used it again.
Don't Worry, since KDE, KDevelop, etc... slashdotters have get used to the idea that if it is a ".0" release, then it is crappy.
Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'
Ok, in the interests of not being redundant, I'm going to entirely skip the "OMG CAN ANYONE SAY BLOAT" topic.
A web server?
A WEB SERVER?
I will always – ALWAYS – believe a web server is dangerous in the hands of an idiot (and yes, the vast majority of computer users are idiots, in terms of computer literacy). I challenge you to convince me otherwise (actually, never mind... it's probably not worth your time).
At worst, you've opened a massive set of new vulnerabilities – again, not going to go into redundant levels of detail here, but a general attitude amongst IT is "LimeWire = Virus". Not because it's true, but because so many idiots manage to illustrate it.
At best, ...there is no best case. I guarantee that there are enough idiots out there that they will find some way to make the worst come true.
Frankly, if Opera wants to make a web browser that Gramma can use, adding a web server was a poor choice.
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
No, they've sued to have a kitchen sink supplied by Microsoft to every possible user rather than put the effort into marketing their own sink.
Slahdot uses charset=iso-8859-1. The page he copied from (probably this one using charset=utf-8) uses smartquotes, emdashes and so on which are mangled when you copy/paste them from a UTF-8 page.
You're like those people who can hear quite well but they just don't listen. THE QUESTION WAS: did he bother to use "Preview"? Because that would have neatly negated the very well-known (bleedin' obvious, easily looked up) issue you raise.
You forget, Opera is one of the companies behind the EU trying to force Microsoft to install other browsers on the new operating system. So if this goes through, guess how many millions of web serving zombies will be out there by gramdma and grandpa or even your mom and dad who just bought the PC and don't know what opera is don't care and let alone it is sitting there serving web pages. I mean seriously did we lean nothing with Windows 200o default install of IIS.