Re: Opera web browser

2000-12-07 Thread Lee Maguire
[2000-12-07] Digital Overdrive wrote: > But see the URL first because there are 2 versions (and why does > Netscape load the .deb instead of downloading it automaticly ?) Because uunetnl.linux.tucows.com is setup to serve .deb as the mime-type text/plain - and your browser is set-up to display tex

Re: Opera web browser

2000-12-07 Thread Digital Overdrive
Alson van der Meulen wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 10:22:29AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > > > > Is there any way to apt-get Opera, or must one just download the deb > > from opera.com and use dpkg to install it? > > opera possibly doesn't allow redistribution of their software, > including

Re: Opera web browser

2000-12-07 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 10:22:29AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > Is there any way to apt-get Opera, or must one just download the deb from > opera.com and use dpkg to install it? opera possibly doesn't allow redistribution of their software, including debs. so i guess it's not apt-get'able, even not

Re: Opera Web Browser (with an html address...)

1997-11-07 Thread Mike Linksvayer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >Arena is rather crash prone, and since Yggdrasil took over development, I >haven't heard much about newer releases of it. They make a new developer release about once a week, though I haven't tried one in a long time. See

Re: Opera Web Browser (with an html address...)

1997-11-07 Thread liiwi
(cut) >> Anyways, I wanted to encourage all my fellow Debian users to go to their >> page >> and respond. I know it isn't 100% kosher Debian Free Software Guideline >> software, but it would nicely replace those other two web browsers (what >> were >> they called) on the linux desktop. >>

Re: Opera Web Browser (with an html address...)

1997-11-07 Thread Benedikt Eric Heinen
> > I don't know about your scam-o-meter, but I'd rather go for this option > > and "risk" the US$35 myself, then to wait for a company like Microsoft, > > who can afford the kind of money to develop a browser for linux without up > > front cash. > Wouldn't it be better to send your $35 to the FSF

Re: Opera Web Browser (with an html address...)

1997-11-07 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Nov 06, 1997 at 10:30:31PM +0100, Benedikt Eric Heinen wrote: > > My scam-o-meter is going haywire. They say after the 3000 people register, > > they will be contacted again, and asked to pay $35 (for a product that will > > not be written yet!) with the money going toward development. > I

Re: Opera Web Browser (with an html address...)

1997-11-07 Thread Ben Pfaff
Benedikt Eric Heinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Maybe I should add to that, Opera is not just doing a "poll", to see > who's interested, but they are actively requesting orders for Opera 3.0 at > US$35 each. They'll be billing you those US$35 if they manage to get 3000 > pre-orders for the pla

Re: Opera Web Browser (with an html address...)

1997-11-06 Thread Tobias Bachmor
On 06-Nov-97 Ben Pfaff wrote: >Benedikt Eric Heinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I would rather that Netscape had never released a Linux version. Then >by now we would have a free web browser for Linux that was better than >Netscape because of the sheer frustration that everyone would have >from

Re: Opera Web Browser (with an html address...)

1997-11-06 Thread Ben Pfaff
Benedikt Eric Heinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am regularly looking at all browsers I can get for linux (basically > anytime that there is a new release), but so far, there is no real > alternative to Netscape; but Netscape is a commercial product, so there > will be no sources available to p

Re: Opera Web Browser (with an html address...)

1997-11-06 Thread Benedikt Eric Heinen
> My scam-o-meter is going haywire. They say after the 3000 people register, > they will be contacted again, and asked to pay $35 (for a product that will > not be written yet!) with the money going toward development. > > Maybe these guys are legit. Maybe they will disappear with $105,000. I love

Re: Opera Web Browser

1997-11-06 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Paul J Thompson wrote: > I recently was looking to see if the web browser Opera was available for > Linux. Well, when looking at their site I discovered that they are currently > doing a poll of sorts to see how many Linux users (along with some other OSs) > would be intere

Re: Opera Web Browser (with an html address...)

1997-11-06 Thread Chad D. Zimmerman
On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Joey Hess wrote: > Paul J Thompson wrote: > > I recently was looking to see if the web browser Opera was available for > > Linux. Well, when looking at their site I discovered that they are > > currently > > doing a poll of sorts to see how many Linux users (along with s

Re: Opera Web Browser (with an html address...)

1997-11-06 Thread Joey Hess
Paul J Thompson wrote: > I recently was looking to see if the web browser Opera was available for > Linux. Well, when looking at their site I discovered that they are > currently > doing a poll of sorts to see how many Linux users (along with some other > OSs) > would be interested in the

Re: Opera Web Browser (with an html address...)

1997-11-06 Thread Benedikt Eric Heinen
> I recently was looking to see if the web browser Opera was available for > Linux. Well, when looking at their site I discovered that they are > currently > doing a poll of sorts to see how many Linux users (along with some other > OSs) > would be interested in their browser. They have