I tried installing Opera, and went down the garden path for weeks. When I tried to download it, their host insisted on sending me the latest version, which however would not run on the 2.2 Kernel the Corel install was using. And maybe there is something wrong with the Corel Debian setup, but apt-get just didnt. At best it'd tell me a buncha stuff I needed, and when I went to get that, that stuff like Gcc+ or whatever, told me I had to go get something else. Kafkaesque.
Bob George wrote: > John Oram wrote: > >> [...] I have seen Opera 7.5 running on Xandros. >> >> I'm not making a comment on Opera's GUI design or lack of same, mail >> handling, etc. Rather I'm pointing to the fact your not stuck with >> the older Netscape 4.7 application code which I remember being >> introduced circa 1996 or 1997 ... > > > Also worth noting that if Xandros is debian-based, installing a VERY > featureful and modern browser with any reasonable network connection > should be as simple as "apt-get install mozilla" (gotta love debian!) > Moz has become my browser of choice, and I note that security experts > are now widely recommending "any other browser" besides MSIE lately. > > Debian (any any apt-driven derivative) also provides the same easy > installation for a number of other browsers which are lightweight > mozilla/netscape offspring (galeon, encompass, firebird, firefox) each > of which has strenghts and weaknesses (and size differences.) > > Day, doesn't Xandros' KDE also ship with the Konqueror browser? While > it's not my favorite, it's a fairly competent browser and definitely > better than an antique Netscape 4.7! It comes with Mozilla. I think it has several other GUIs besides KDE, and during setup, you can make it use 'double click' and other characteristics of the MS windows interface. > Hey, welcome to Linux: Where options abound! Oh yeah. No doubt the added functionality of Xandros will be seen offered by your favorite distro soon. The only functional problem I had was with a RW/CD which wouldnt write. So, I found a copy of Nero, popped that in the drive (it read ok), and away went the install. By Xandros, using 'Crossover' to install a windows program. But after the install, it asked me to logon to a Microsoft website, which I declined, and aborted the install. It was less worrisome to take out the RW/CD, put it in a win 98 system, and use Nero to burn it from there. Made two copies of the Xandros install CD, one of which worked well enough to boot the system. I aint got a round tuit to see if everything worked. Nero says the Xandros CD is copywrited, but dont seemta mind backing up the Xandros CD. But everything else has worked. Xandros even runs a winmodem that Suse, Mandrake, and Redhat (versions 6-7) cant even find. Course, it's a DRAM hog. With just firebird, this composer, and the memory control center, there's only 4.5 meg of the original 128meg DRAM left. But windoz users wont notice, it aint any slower. Course, Corel ran several winmodems too. FWIW an ASUS with DDRAM, spozed to be faster, so your Kharma may vary. But the ASUS recognizes IDE drives on the fly, so you can yank one out of any old PC, and not worry about getting the heads,cyl, sector numbers right, and Xandros will ask if you want to boot from it... or give you access to it after Xandros comes up, without *ever* telling you- you dont have 'permission'. If you have old PCs (it can even mount some Mac stuff) or a buncha old drives like I do, maybe 20 of them all the way down to 40meg, it's damn handy, and wont ever write where it aint spozed to.
