xDSL utilizes more of the bandwidth on copper phone lines than what is
currently used for plain old telephone service (POTS). By utilizing
frequencies above the telephone bandwidth (300Hz to 3,200Hz), xDSL can
encode more data to achieve higher data rates than would otherwise be
possible in the restricted frequency range of a POTS network. In order
to utilize the frequencies above the voice audio spectrum, xDSL equipment
must be installed on both ends and the copper wire in between must be able
to sustain the higher frequencies for the entire route. This means that
bandwidth limiting devices such as loading coils must be removed or
avoided.
How many months waiting for the next "jpeg progressive enabled" (progressive jpeg was added in version 1.1.1...) version to come out of unstable! Finally, i really hope Debian 2.2 "Potato" dumps the buggy "rotate broken" 1.1.17 version inmediatly, 1.0.x is just too old now, stable or not. Anyway, this is a good present, one of the few desktop open source products we can be proud of. Now if only one of the open source office suites could reach the functional and speedy level The Gimp now has... Alas, but it will be just a matter of time, after some years Mozilla is now paying off:)
True, SC2 one of the best games ever released. But did they fix that nasty Arilou dialog bug? I could not finish the game twice because of this bug where if you used all your dialog options with the Arilou prior having certain artifact, they'll never give you the warp engine or whatever it was called... So you could never reach certain parts of the galaxy in time...
I wish there was a Lame / Ogg like effort to produce MPEG4 like video outside of just the windows world. Can't we have TMPGEnc and DVD2AVI in Linux world too? Can't we have an mpeg4 codec and good VCD / SVCD support? So far i have only seen decent attempts from Heroine Virtual but almost nobody else. Is digital video taboo in non windows machines?
Tenkuu no Escaflowne Is *very* good, the music, the story and the Animation, i love it!
Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon Avoid the DIC American crap! You must see the original or any of the other translations, Please check the First season, Sailormoon S, Sailormoon Sailor Stars and all the three movies (and the Specials if you can)
Top wo Onerae!: Gunbuster I think this is the best ever Anime from Gainax; starts very shoujo like but it ends very hard science fiction, takes in account the properties of travelings at speeds near the light speed where time dilates...
Rurouni Kenshin Aka Samurai X, this is an *excellent* ANIMEESHON ^_^x the series is a bit shoujo like sometimes, its at the beginning of Meiji era in Japan (actually the OVAs ar just at the end of Tokugawa era) and shows a lot of samurai/kendo style martial arts:) Don't miss Rurouni Kenshin, is all available in DVD at Sony Japan, Openings and Endings feature Jpop music:)
Slayers Excellent! Its even better if you have seen some other Anime before... Its RPG like but with a little more fun. I've seen Slayers, Slayers Next and Slayers Try, and i'm waiting for Slayers Royal, there some great OVAs/movies too:)
Lodoss tou Senki aka Record of Lodoss War hehe, you love RPG? D&D like, very well done, unlike Slayers this one is seriously made.
Bubblegum Crisis So you like those mechas? Here is one series of 8 OVA classics about this team of sentai (SFX show) like girls suited with powerful exo-armor in a little futuristic world, they also perform as a popular music band:) I really like the original 8, but the after AD Police and Bubblegum Crash weren't so good...
Anime or Japanese animation (to us) has too many good titles, there are many that i'm missing but please check out for yourself. Treat Anime just like you treat movies (or non Hollywood movies anyway), don't use the word "comics", many japanese Anime are not comic at all, but there are all kinds of them, you may not like them all but some you will certainly love.
Oh yes, check out Spriggan if you like violence/action stuff, for once, the US are the evil guys on this one hehehe...
Let me guess: its hard disk and DVD drive are IDE, the CPU architecture obviusly x86... And so they think they have a chance against all the others? And worse of it, they have it completed, yet they will wait until Dec of 2001 to launch it? By then, with this hardware, it will be more than obsolete... Unless they release it *now*, this thing is condemned to failure, and even if they release it now, they better be prepared to sell it underpriced, and hope to gain any money by selling its software, or internet related services. The PSX2 *will* cost less than 200$, are they ready for this challenge? If they do it right, we may even have a new cool and cheap little gadget to add Linux to, as this is not much more than a standard PC, perhaps with some fancy Video and input devices.
So far one of the very few Linux programs that actually does nice Sound editing and recording is broadcast2000. Its name and its apparent function as "video" editor keep me away from it at first, but then i saw someone saying that it actually worked as a simple 2 channel (stereo) sound editor too. It has the needed audio level indicator when recording. The issues i have with it are: First, an annoying bug with the cancel button, the program will fail to do anything else after the first or second cancel of any action; in this condition it will even erase/corrupt the opened WAV without warning... Also Mix2000 is almost perfect, but with my SB16 and OSS/Free (patched) driver it lacks some sliders and settings, so i had to switch back to SMIX as an X Mixer... (smix can't be controlled with the keyboard...)
Both are excellent and i plan to use them a lot once the bugs are fixed... I hope to try the Video editing someday. (And i hope to learn how to make a VideoCD with Linux...)
I always had problems in Linux to use both my SB16 and my Roland SCC-1 (mpu401) at the same time, in the old 2.0.x series it was as simple as compiling both sound drivers into the kernel; with the new 2.2.x series is a costant pain, i have to unload the SB16 module to use the MPU401 one, and vice versa. I have my SB16's midi "uart" properly configured "out of the way" (address 300), so the MPU401 driver could use the Roland's standard address (IRQ 9, addr 330). Of course in both DOS and Windows this has never been an issue, both cards work perfectly at the same time. I have also tried the ALSA drivers; but the MIDI portion is lacking (to say the least); they always assume that "uart" MIDI is built in on a sound card, but never alone. What if i had one of the Roland interface boards to connect my midi equipment? There is no "lone" MPU401 equivalent in ALSA, only serial? support.
There is another problem with OSS MIDI drivers; i have found no way to accurately reproduce complex MIDI files, i have tried playmidi, srgplay and others but they always eat some notes somewhere. Sadly the only way i have found to reproduce the midi files properly within Linux, is by using dosemu and one of the good DOS midi players, like megamid or mplay (of course i had to give direct IRQ 9 and addr 330 access to DOSEMU).
There do seems to be progress on the sequencer side of MIDI software, i would like to completely replace Cakewalk/Win9x but the issue with drivers had never let me switch completely.
I haven't tried Jazz custom midi driver, and the old "Intelligent Roland" kernel module does not even compile on my system:(
So, who needs the Recording Industry these days? True Artists may earn a lot more by producing and selling their discs themselves, even if they reach a much smaller group; many will reach their real public directly and feel much better, no need to lower away your quality work in the name of commerce; if you see it clearly, the Recording Industry are parasites eating almost all the revenue earned by the artists; so it quite ironic that some "other parasites" are eating "their" revenue as well. Sayounara RIAA, we will NOT miss you:)
I would love to see more, and more "unlicensed" / "open" / "non aproved" DVD players out there. Why? standard aproved ones needs to meet certain minimun requirements (and pay) in order to obtain a proper decoding key from "the big ones"; these requirements include adding an expensive "macrovision" chip and paying a license to Macrovision for its use as well. As you may be guessing, this of course increases manufacture costs per unit. Many of us will want a player who does not ever enable macrovision; and of course ignore these silly region codes. Í know this is difficult for people living in the United States; as selling such devices could be illegal. But for all of us who live outside, we don't need to pay extra costs for "features" that we will never use. Making "unlicensed/unaproved" players would save manufacturers money which could be better used for adding more "real" features like multiple NTSC/PAL/DTV(progressive) outputs on the same device, DTS, whatever digital Surround, etc. I've been told, the way the "system" works in the US is to sell a "fully compliant" authorized device; which if you "somehow tamper" in a non advertised/the manufacturer holds no responsability/you will lose your warranty way, your device "could malfunction" and "fail" to adhere to the standard and therefore not enable the requested (by disc) features (say, region lock, fastforward lock, and macrovision) because the client was told to never open and move that jumper in there or press the non documented/not in the manual/i didn't tell you sequence of buttons in your remote control; that made the device somehow "malfunction". In other words, when there is a customer demand, there will always be a supply, so why not sincere yourselves and start doing things the Right Way (tm) on the first place?
Did you know that, the release of the DVD format was delayed at least a year because hollywood refused to accept a digital format that could mean the end of the NTSC/PAL pseudo control they had until then? Since a movie could be stored in mpeg2 at 24 frames/s, and then the device could output the signal at PAL or NTSC or whatever in real time; the studios would inmediatly loose the pseudo restriction they had by delaying the release of the movies on video in the proper format (aka, the other non NTSC ones) that prevented "too many people" doing casual imports (since they had to buy extra equipment, to view NTSC, etc) it seems that they still are unaware of the very popular pseudo-ntsc capability that many "non NTSC" devices had all these years, since for them its very simple to view NTSC imports than for us is to see PAL... Anyway region codes and macrovision were added at the last moment, and even then only half of them agreed to support DVD. See, the format was never intended to use those "features" on the first place; that's why they were so simple to "ignore", even from day 0; early DVD players don't even seek for the region code byte or even have the macrovision chip.
With the crack of CSS, stupid hollywood fears on loosing control would rise again against the format, and that explains the current DVDCA attitude; althought it never justifies it. Will the DVD format die? If manufacturers go subversive and start making non compliant devices; ignoring DVDCA complains (although they would have problems for sales in the US) therefore making DVD players as cheap as they really are, it will then last way longer than expected; even without Hollywood contempt, alternate markets will take their place (say, what you insist to call pirates) and many, many devices will be sold worldwide; with or without studios blessings. They could take advantage by adopting it and forget about their stupid already lost control on "movie release schedule" (it's more let the middlemans be happy) or go totally against it (Hi J. Lucas) and let the alternate market take full control (and revenue).
The way you see it, DVD manufacturers could always win, many of them are also part of the "Consortium", and hey! they even own some of the studios too! (Sony anyone?) Of course if the format is pushed to the death (very unlikely now that *anyone* can make their own player, the real treat of DeCSS to the Consortium) they would lose, So if the MPAA don't pay more attention, they could make angry some of their big Associates...
In the end, we will all use Opendvd, or "unlicensed" or whatever digital open format we see fit (even VCDs with mpeg2 video aka SuperVCDs aka VCD2s get distributed by alternate means these days); they could be against their customers, or with them; they may get some of the revenue or none at all, they may adopt or kill the format, we will see. One thing is clear, the way they used to do things, vertically by maintaing an iron grip control over their customers is over. Same goes to Music Recording Industries; only that we don't need them already anymore, with CD-Rs and MP3s.
Also, trademarking "Linux" in a small country isn't evil in itself; they might just be protecting themselves against somebody else doing the same thing. It all depends on how they use it.
If this is like my country; then it could mean that, following an aproval; "LinuxTECH" may sue anyone trying to use the word Linux. Ie; the "Linux" word will become a Registered trademark and no one else _but them_ have the right to use it or use it for profit. This is serious.
I think the Uruguayan Linux User group should boycott this company, and ask SUSE to stop their agreement with them unless they stop. If there is a risk that someone else attempts to take the name; then a not profit organization (like the user group) should apply for the Name (to declare it non trademarkable et al.).
Well, we can always count on our taiwanese friends for a DVD transfer; in the end, its no longer Mr. Big who decides stubbornly on it. I'd rather buy a taiwanese DVD; even if is just a simple "analog reel film to DVD transfer" it will certainly worth more than an overpriced VHS that will look plain ugly and will self-destruct in less time than you may think. Keep the stubborn Mr. Big; it won't matter. After all; we may now produce our own DVDs, right? No need to pay special royalties anymore. It was their fault in the first place if they loose sales for this decision.
Now everyone in the movie industry has to decide: They may take opportunity of the techologies that are available and make profit for it; or they may go retro and be against it, staying in the past. Who will win? Us. In the end; its ourselves and our demand. Take advantage of new techologies or swim against the river flow; you decide...
I keep hearing complaints from winusers about Linux lacking a single.exe like file that could run on any Linux box without paying care about dists and/or libraries versions, the answer is there, and is really too simple but sadly most programmers are just too lazy: the STATIC binary. I know these are huge; but its just what these people want; why not make everyone happy, taking them away the complex of compiling by just making everything available as STATIC binaries as well?
Heck, even binaries are easier to install than RPMs thingies; and when truly STATIC you don't need to pay attention for dependencies either...
What we need people is a main Linux web site offering STATIC compiled version of all the popular and most needed software (if not all). If not fully STATIC, at least the usual LIBC5/GLIBC2.x flavor would give newcomers a heaven; and the price for not taking care on how to compile is the penalty in app size, just as is a reward if you do care and find out how.
So please give us those STATIC BINARIES! Not everyone can (or care to) compile you know.
I must say i'm impressed, i've been using Opera since v3.2; one (if not the) programs i missed since i decided to abandon micro$tuff land once and for all. I see that some of you don't even know its key features, so i'll name a few for you developers to pay very close attention: - Very small, download: file less than 2Megs. - Customization, no just stupid cosmetic things; You can turn on/off: Frames, "Scripting languages" (javascript), allow pages to create new window, allow pages to auto "redirect" to other pages (pop-up ads anyone?:), _Referrer_ (no more target marketing based on your nav. habits), CSS, Cookies, cache-size-expire independent for text, graphics, and "misc"... - Save page _with images_ (i can't believe no other browser ever came with this after so many years of www). - Open multiple browse windows within main "root" program with centralized GUI instead of spawning new copies of the whole browser... (this saves *a lot* of desktop space) - Zoom option, zooms/shrinks text and images, handy for ppl like me with VGA only monitors to see "how it could look like" if, say 1024x768 or more were available. - The Java thing is a _separate_ *optional* plug- in (it adds 6 more megs to download) - Attempts to support many IE/Netscape Plug-ins. - HTML4, and CSS1/2? supported. - Even PNG support (ok, not perfect but). - 128 strong encryption (crypto laws only hurts the jobs for the ppl living in those condemned countries..., why develop in USlike when you can just go to other country with sane patent/crypto laws and have instant world coverage?). - Support for most non-standard non HTML compliant code from IE/Netscape (embed, bgsound, etc).
About its license: is not that ugly; 17$ for students; and some Linux dists may be considering to even bundle a "licensed" Opera, much the way Caldera and Suse bundles some other non-free software as well... So no real problems here (unless all they do is bundle the (cough) "demo" version, not a good idea, please stop bundling demos or forcing ppl to go find stupid serials online (Staroffice 5/Wordperfect 8 anyone?)...
And finally, it won't hurt anyone to have another wonderful piece of software *finally* ported to our excellent Operating System. I'm really tired of Netscape, and we won't see any Mozilla action untill far the next year, so i see no reason that this could do any harm. Besides, it's a great source of ideas, for all of you wanna be Open to implement in your future proyects. Lets see what the ppl finally thinks when it becomes available; but pay very close attention.
Linux is lacking true browser choices, forcing users to use a bloated, buggy and *ugly* Netscape is not the best way to attract potential desktop users, i wish the best for all the ongoing proyects, but timing in the next month could be a crucial factor. Who knows, maybe Corel could give us a www browser too...
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From the xdsl FAQ:
[3.1]How does xDSL work?
xDSL utilizes more of the bandwidth on copper phone lines than what is currently used for plain old telephone service (POTS). By utilizing frequencies above the telephone bandwidth (300Hz to 3,200Hz), xDSL can encode more data to achieve higher data rates than would otherwise be possible in the restricted frequency range of a POTS network. In order to utilize the frequencies above the voice audio spectrum, xDSL equipment must be installed on both ends and the copper wire in between must be able to sustain the higher frequencies for the entire route. This means that bandwidth limiting devices such as loading coils must be removed or avoided.
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Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon Avoid the DIC American crap! You must see the original or any of the other translations, Please check the First season, Sailormoon S, Sailormoon Sailor Stars and all the three movies (and the Specials if you can)
Top wo Onerae!: Gunbuster I think this is the best ever Anime from Gainax; starts very shoujo like but it ends very hard science fiction, takes in account the properties of travelings at speeds near the light speed where time dilates...
Rurouni Kenshin Aka Samurai X, this is an *excellent* ANIMEESHON ^_^x the series is a bit shoujo like sometimes, its at the beginning of Meiji era in Japan (actually the OVAs ar just at the end of Tokugawa era) and shows a lot of samurai/kendo style martial arts :) Don't miss Rurouni Kenshin, is all available in DVD at Sony Japan, Openings and Endings feature Jpop music :)
Slayers Excellent! Its even better if you have seen some other Anime before... Its RPG like but with a little more fun. I've seen Slayers, Slayers Next and Slayers Try, and i'm waiting for Slayers Royal, there some great OVAs/movies too :)
Lodoss tou Senki aka Record of Lodoss War hehe, you love RPG? D&D like, very well done, unlike Slayers this one is seriously made.
Bubblegum Crisis So you like those mechas? Here is one series of 8 OVA classics about this team of sentai (SFX show) like girls suited with powerful exo-armor in a little futuristic world, they also perform as a popular music band :) I really like the original 8, but the after AD Police and Bubblegum Crash weren't so good...
Anime or Japanese animation (to us) has too many good titles, there are many that i'm missing but please check out for yourself. Treat Anime just like you treat movies (or non Hollywood movies anyway), don't use the word "comics", many japanese Anime are not comic at all, but there are all kinds of them, you may not like them all but some you will certainly love.
Oh yes, check out Spriggan if you like violence/action stuff, for once, the US are the evil guys on this one hehehe...
Find more at Anipike ^_^;
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Both are excellent and i plan to use them a lot once the bugs are fixed... I hope to try the Video editing someday. (And i hope to learn how to make a VideoCD with Linux...)
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There is another problem with OSS MIDI drivers; i have found no way to accurately reproduce complex MIDI files, i have tried playmidi, srgplay and others but they always eat some notes somewhere. Sadly the only way i have found to reproduce the midi files properly within Linux, is by using dosemu and one of the good DOS midi players, like megamid or mplay (of course i had to give direct IRQ 9 and addr 330 access to DOSEMU).
There do seems to be progress on the sequencer side of MIDI software, i would like to completely replace Cakewalk/Win9x but the issue with drivers had never let me switch completely.
I haven't tried Jazz custom midi driver, and the old "Intelligent Roland" kernel module does not even compile on my system :(
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So, who needs the Recording Industry these days? True Artists may earn a lot more by producing and selling their discs themselves, even if they reach a much smaller group; many will reach their real public directly and feel much better, no need to lower away your quality work in the name of commerce; if you see it clearly, the Recording Industry are parasites eating almost all the revenue earned by the artists; so it quite ironic that some "other parasites" are eating "their" revenue as well. Sayounara RIAA, we will NOT miss you :)
Did you know that, the release of the DVD format was delayed at least a year because hollywood refused to accept a digital format that could mean the end of the NTSC/PAL pseudo control they had until then? Since a movie could be stored in mpeg2 at 24 frames/s, and then the device could output the signal at PAL or NTSC or whatever in real time; the studios would inmediatly loose the pseudo restriction they had by delaying the release of the movies on video in the proper format (aka, the other non NTSC ones) that prevented "too many people" doing casual imports (since they had to buy extra equipment, to view NTSC, etc) it seems that they still are unaware of the very popular pseudo-ntsc capability that many "non NTSC" devices had all these years, since for them its very simple to view NTSC imports than for us is to see PAL... Anyway region codes and macrovision were added at the last moment, and even then only half of them agreed to support DVD. See, the format was never intended to use those "features" on the first place; that's why they were so simple to "ignore", even from day 0; early DVD players don't even seek for the region code byte or even have the macrovision chip.
With the crack of CSS, stupid hollywood fears on loosing control would rise again against the format, and that explains the current DVDCA attitude; althought it never justifies it. Will the DVD format die? If manufacturers go subversive and start making non compliant devices; ignoring DVDCA complains (although they would have problems for sales in the US) therefore making DVD players as cheap as they really are, it will then last way longer than expected; even without Hollywood contempt, alternate markets will take their place (say, what you insist to call pirates) and many, many devices will be sold worldwide; with or without studios blessings. They could take advantage by adopting it and forget about their stupid already lost control on "movie release schedule" (it's more let the middlemans be happy) or go totally against it (Hi J. Lucas) and let the alternate market take full control (and revenue).
The way you see it, DVD manufacturers could always win, many of them are also part of the "Consortium", and hey! they even own some of the studios too! (Sony anyone?) Of course if the format is pushed to the death (very unlikely now that *anyone* can make their own player, the real treat of DeCSS to the Consortium) they would lose, So if the MPAA don't pay more attention, they could make angry some of their big Associates...
In the end, we will all use Opendvd, or "unlicensed" or whatever digital open format we see fit (even VCDs with mpeg2 video aka SuperVCDs aka VCD2s get distributed by alternate means these days); they could be against their customers, or with them; they may get some of the revenue or none at all, they may adopt or kill the format, we will see. One thing is clear, the way they used to do things, vertically by maintaing an iron grip control over their customers is over. Same goes to Music Recording Industries; only that we don't need them already anymore, with CD-Rs and MP3s.
Camaleo, like chameleon and camouflage that somebody already said, and of course, the spanish word Camaleón.
If this is like my country; then it could mean that, following an aproval; "LinuxTECH" may sue anyone trying to use the word Linux. Ie; the "Linux" word will become a Registered trademark and no one else _but them_ have the right to use it or use it for profit. This is serious.
I think the Uruguayan Linux User group should boycott this company, and ask SUSE to stop their agreement with them unless they stop. If there is a risk that someone else attempts to take the name; then a not profit organization (like the user group) should apply for the Name (to declare it non trademarkable et al.).
Well, we can always count on our taiwanese friends for a DVD transfer; in the end, its no longer Mr. Big who decides stubbornly on it. I'd rather buy a taiwanese DVD; even if is just a simple "analog reel film to DVD transfer" it will certainly worth more than an overpriced VHS that will look plain ugly and will self-destruct in less time than you may think. Keep the stubborn Mr. Big; it won't matter. After all; we may now produce our own DVDs, right? No need to pay special royalties anymore. It was their fault in the first place if they loose sales for this decision.
Now everyone in the movie industry has to decide: They may take opportunity of the techologies that are available and make profit for it; or they may go retro and be against it, staying in the past. Who will win? Us. In the end; its ourselves and our demand. Take advantage of new techologies or swim against the river flow; you decide...
I keep hearing complaints from winusers about Linux lacking a single .exe like file that could run on any Linux box without paying care about dists and/or libraries versions, the answer is there, and is really too simple but sadly most programmers are just too lazy: the STATIC binary. I know these are huge; but its just what these people want; why not make everyone happy, taking them away the complex of compiling by just making everything available as STATIC binaries as well?
Heck, even binaries are easier to install than RPMs thingies; and when truly STATIC you don't need to pay attention for dependencies either...
What we need people is a main Linux web site offering STATIC compiled version of all the popular and most needed software (if not all). If not fully STATIC, at least the usual LIBC5/GLIBC2.x flavor would give newcomers a heaven; and the price for not taking care on how to compile is the penalty in app size, just as is a reward if you do care and find out how.
So please give us those STATIC BINARIES! Not everyone can (or care to) compile you know.
I must say i'm impressed, i've been using Opera since v3.2; one (if not the) programs i missed since i decided to abandon micro$tuff land once and for all. I see that some of you don't even know its key features, so i'll name a few for you developers to pay very close attention: :), _Referrer_ (no more target marketing based on your nav. habits), CSS, Cookies, cache-size-expire independent for text, graphics, and "misc"...
- Very small, download: file less than 2Megs.
- Customization, no just stupid cosmetic things; You can turn on/off: Frames, "Scripting languages" (javascript), allow pages to create new window, allow pages to auto "redirect" to other pages (pop-up ads anyone?
- Save page _with images_ (i can't believe no other browser ever came with this after so many years of www).
- Open multiple browse windows within main "root" program with centralized GUI instead of spawning new copies of the whole browser... (this saves *a lot* of desktop space)
- Zoom option, zooms/shrinks text and images, handy for ppl like me with VGA only monitors to see "how it could look like" if, say 1024x768 or more were available.
- The Java thing is a _separate_ *optional* plug- in (it adds 6 more megs to download)
- Attempts to support many IE/Netscape Plug-ins.
- HTML4, and CSS1/2? supported.
- Even PNG support (ok, not perfect but).
- 128 strong encryption (crypto laws only hurts the jobs for the ppl living in those condemned countries..., why develop in USlike when you can just go to other country with sane patent/crypto laws and have instant world coverage?).
- Support for most non-standard non HTML compliant code from IE/Netscape (embed, bgsound, etc).
About its license: is not that ugly; 17$ for students; and some Linux dists may be considering to even bundle a "licensed" Opera, much the way Caldera and Suse bundles some other non-free software as well... So no real problems here (unless all they do is bundle the (cough) "demo" version, not a good idea, please stop bundling demos or forcing ppl to go find stupid serials online (Staroffice 5/Wordperfect 8 anyone?)...
And finally, it won't hurt anyone to have another wonderful piece of software *finally* ported to our excellent Operating System. I'm really tired of Netscape, and we won't see any Mozilla action untill far the next year, so i see no reason that this could do any harm. Besides, it's a great source of ideas, for all of you wanna be Open to implement in your future proyects. Lets see what the ppl finally thinks when it becomes available; but pay very close attention.
Linux is lacking true browser choices, forcing users to use a bloated, buggy and *ugly* Netscape is not the best way to attract potential desktop users, i wish the best for all the ongoing proyects, but timing in the next month could be a crucial factor. Who knows, maybe Corel could give us a www browser too...