Posted by
Hemos
on from the getting-another-browser dept.
bigdan writes "A new interview with the lead programmer of the Linux team
porting Opera has him (Darren Starr) stating that they hope to have
a public beta by Christmas (of Opera 4.0). The interview also
goes on to mention a Sparc version coming soon.
"
Any browser competition is good..
by
xtal
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In order to prevent a real mess on the web, lots of browsers using standard specifications are a good thing (tm). If mozilla, opera, etc gain mindshare, then in turn sites will be designed with this in mind.
A good browser is absolutely essential to the success of linux, be it open or closed source - BillyG isn't dumb, and there's a reason that IE5.0 is one sweet product. Lots of people on/. have pointed out that they boot windows to use it - this isn't a good thing, we want the "list of reasons" for/dev/hda fat32 to go down, not up!:)
Otoh, it _is_ closed source, although the Opera team did a excellent job on their windows browser, which runs quite nicely on an old 486/75 notebook in the living room displaying my channel listings:).
Mozilla will stomp them all given time.. open source will always win over time, because companies can't/won't commit to infiniately developing and improving a product line - look at the slowdown with Netscape on Linux.
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In order to prevent a real mess on the web, lots of browsers using standard specifications are a good thing (tm). If mozilla, opera, etc gain mindshare, then in turn sites will be designed with this in mind.
A good browser is absolutely essential to the success of linux, be it open or closed source - BillyG isn't dumb, and there's a reason that IE5.0 is one sweet product. Lots of people on /. have pointed out that they boot windows to use it - this isn't a good thing, we want the "list of reasons" for /dev/hda fat32 to go down, not up! :)
Otoh, it _is_ closed source, although the Opera team did a excellent job on their windows browser, which runs quite nicely on an old 486/75 notebook in the living room displaying my channel listings :).
Mozilla will stomp them all given time.. open source will always win over time, because companies can't/won't commit to infiniately developing and improving a product line - look at the slowdown with Netscape on Linux.
Kudos..
..don't panic