from the UNIX front
By csant. Thursday, 22. March 2007, 21:59:58
Two important things have happend this last week on the UNIX front of our desktop team:
It started on monday with PC-BSD announcing that it will deliver Opera in the next version of PC-BSD. Opera will be "one less thing you need to download after installation", as Matt Olander, CTO of iXsystems puts it, to get "a more usable system" out of your PC-BSD box.
And today we had our second big announcement:
Baobab and Opera have joined forces in an innovative project to provide the technology to combat HIV.
The solution is based on using a stripped-down Linux distribution on low-end hardware with a touchscreen. One of the main concerns is of course performance and footprint: but even just the plain desktop version is an ideal solution on low-end hardware.
It is a significant step for us: it is "a first step towards using Opera to power the projects that promote progress in the developing world", as Håkon Wium Lie, CTO of Opera, puts it. There are more steps to do…
P.S. Some community members have already asked how they can help the Baobab project: you can help them out with a charitable donation - they have a button on their site.
It started on monday with PC-BSD announcing that it will deliver Opera in the next version of PC-BSD. Opera will be "one less thing you need to download after installation", as Matt Olander, CTO of iXsystems puts it, to get "a more usable system" out of your PC-BSD box.
And today we had our second big announcement:
Baobab and Opera have joined forces in an innovative project to provide the technology to combat HIV.
The solution is based on using a stripped-down Linux distribution on low-end hardware with a touchscreen. One of the main concerns is of course performance and footprint: but even just the plain desktop version is an ideal solution on low-end hardware.
It is a significant step for us: it is "a first step towards using Opera to power the projects that promote progress in the developing world", as Håkon Wium Lie, CTO of Opera, puts it. There are more steps to do…
P.S. Some community members have already asked how they can help the Baobab project: you can help them out with a charitable donation - they have a button on their site.
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By mattglet, # 22. March 2007, 22:27:33
I've tried PC-BSD, but didn't find it as usable as Linux. With Opera as the default browser, perhaps that will change.
By GT500, # 22. March 2007, 22:28:13
By Contrid, # 22. March 2007, 22:29:07
Exelent, no more words...
Saludos.
By JoRgE-1987, # 22. March 2007, 22:30:45
p.
By mac11, # 22. March 2007, 22:58:50
To install, double-click the .pbi file, a setup wizard will pop up. Follow the steps clicking "Next" all the way, and the setup wizard installs Opera for you in your own language. It works seemlessly with the Flash plugin downloadable on the PBI directory.
Happy Opera
By calande, # 22. March 2007, 23:09:50
Originally posted by "GT500":
What are you don't like about it? It's more easy to Install then any another BSD Desktops! Nice Installation GUI how guide you, nice Software Installer! It's like Windows on Unix base!
Screenshot
PC-BSD is the OS of choice for my Laptop! Nothing runs faster on my laptop!
By Jada0007, # 23. March 2007, 04:23:39
Originally posted by Jada0007:
The way BSD works is not very familiar to me. On the surface it's very similar to Linux, but under the hood it's not. Also, my experiences with PC-BSD did not go well, as it has stability problems on the nForce4 based machine that I was running it on.
Since Linux has more community and corporate support, it tends to run better on newer hardware. Since I have high-end computers with fairly new and expensive hardware, Linux just works better.
Also, Fedora Core's package installer makes it easier to get ahold of software, and there's a lot more software that comes pre-compiled for it.
By GT500, # 23. March 2007, 06:40:27
By Arup Roy Chowdhury, # 23. March 2007, 12:19:20
Thanks.
By aegeus, # 23. March 2007, 13:01:46
While I was writing a blog at my.opera.com/ux50, it crashes as soon as I attach a link address by copy-paste. Error msg says Java script error! Can you fix it please?
Cheers,
UX50
By ux50, # 23. March 2007, 15:29:07
Actually when a PBI isn't available, you can request it on the forum, and it's possible that some one will create it for you. In the meantime you can install software like you use YUM on Fedora, the command is just a little different. There are currently more than 16,000 packages available from the FreeBSD ports
PC-BSD works fine on most hardware, low-end and high-end alike, but Linux has a little bit more support for proprietary hardware.
I use Windows XP, PC-BSD and CentOS (sort of Fedora
By calande, # 23. March 2007, 20:32:48
By paisajes, # 16. November 2007, 19:36:25