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opera olpc edition

Tuesday, 23. January 2007, 19:24:41

We decided to release the special Opera OLPC Edition for everybody to test on the target device. This build fixes the nasty javascript freeze that would kill your machine, and comes with its custom skin and toolbar.

What is different WRT a normal desktop build?

made with gcc 4.1 (instead of 2.95)
Qt 3.3.7 (instead of 3.3.5)
custom skin
custom toolbar
custom opera6rc

Yes, that's all there is different

Many thanks to Helmers and Toman for work on the skin, to Huibk for work on the toolbars, to Eddy for the packages - and many thanks to the full desktop team!

Opera runs smoothly out-of-the-box, and now even more so - at least on the BTest-1 machine we tested it on.

And how does Opera run on your OLPC XO?

P.S. Note that you can run the build also on a normal desktop Linux box - but make sure you read all the warnings first.

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more about opera on the olpc laptop

Wednesday, 10. January 2007, 20:11:14

olpc, opera, linux, laptop

After all the initial fun and excitement, work around Opera on the green machine makes progress. A few updates:

We are investigating the nasty freezer that kills the whole machine: our static builds are made with gcc 2.95 (try opera --full-version to see the details) to ensure Opera running also on older distros - a special internal build made with gcc 4.1 does not exhibit the problem. Now we need to see if we find the needle in the haystack that causes havoc, so that it can be properly fixed.

To nicely fit into the Sugar environment Opera is also getting a new skin and a new toolbar setup - you can see a preview snapshot of the work in progress taken with xwd before the OLPC Build update to 212 - after the update I seem not to be able to take screenshots anymore, they all result in corrupted dumps… A few tabs open, including newsfeeds - and yes, I told you: you have all of the desktop features available…

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opera on the olpc!

Monday, 18. December 2006, 20:35:18

olpc, opera, linux, laptop

"Ohhh, it's SMALL!"
"It's - OHH - so GREEN!"
"HOW CUTE!"

Since Håkon came over to our desktop offices with the OLPC we just received, it got really busy: everybody wants to see it, to touch it, to play with it. Invariably, it catches everybody's fantasy and curiosity. And everybody's enthusiasm: it's really great fun!

Opera runs beautifully on it. The machine is not really the fastest, but Opera' 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 - and you will not miss anything you can enjoy in the desktop version, no need to settle for less. In fact, we currently simply are running the static intel-linux desktop build on it: Opera scales very well on slower machines. We are planning to also play with non-Qt desktop versions on the machine, and test and compare performance results - after all, we want to make sure users will have the choice of good browsers. Keep in mind that the additional RAM that now has been added mainly to allow the bundled browser to run, will be removed again.

Multiple tabs, mouse gestures, keyboard shortcuts, zoom-in on any page and never be afraid to get any horizontal scrollbars, low memory footprint… it all works perfectly - except for when it comes to a very odd and nasty JavaScript freezer that pulls the whole machine down with it…

Well, I guess debugging that will be our Christmas gift for this year

And it's great fun browsing the web on the machine! Stay tuned!

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