Opera Running on the OLPC 193
An anonymous reader writes "The Opera developers have ported their browser to the $100 laptop. Håkon Wium Lie writes: 'Seeing Opera run on the OLPC for first time was a revelation — no browser has ever been more beautiful. The resolution of the screen is stunning (200dpi) and Opera makes the most of the embedded DejaVu fonts.' Claudio Santambrogio writes: 'Opera runs beautifully on it. The machine is not really the fastest, but Opera's performance is excellent — the browsing experience is beautifully smooth: all sites load fine and quickly, and even complex DHTML pages with heavy animations do not suffer.'"
I still want one (Score:2, Insightful)
When can we buy one at 3 times the target price to make a donation to poorer countries?
Will this only ever be vapourware over here?
Re:So? (Score:5, Insightful)
If you don't believe that, believe this - respect has monetary value. It affects who will buy, the price of stocks, the confidence of shareholders, and lots of other unmentioned things. By doing this, Opera buys themselves some respect for fairly cheap which they can cash in later at a premium.
Not enough revert from free to proprietary (Score:3, Insightful)
Unless Opera open sources its browser... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Not enough revert from free to proprietary (Score:5, Insightful)
I think I'll post this anonymously... It's not good to bash Gecko on
Re:Unless Opera open sources its browser... (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Not enough revert from free to proprietary (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Just like IBM (Score:2, Insightful)
Uh, help me see it - so the guys at Opera are going to mass-produce a parallel product, OOLPC (One Opera Laptop Per Child), for which they will maintain identical standards to the competition's OLPC until their OOLPC machine becomes the standard, which they will then use to eliminate all competing laptop manufacturers? After that, I presume they will force all the OOLPC users to upgrade their hardware regularly, in accordance with some onerous and despicable "click-wrap" license?
Sorry, dude - I followed you right up to the point where you said "Just like IBM" - after that, you lost me!
Re:Unless Opera open sources its browser... (Score:2, Insightful)