Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 16:44:27 +0300 From: Alexandr Kovalenko <never@nevermind.kiev.ua> To: Jamie Jones <jamie@host-997.news.landeg.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fwd: Opera press release Message-ID: <20020930134427.GA43060@nevermind.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: <200209232318.21194.jamie@host-997.news.landeg.com> References: <200209232318.21194.jamie@host-997.news.landeg.com>
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Hello, Jamie Jones! On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 11:18:21PM +0100, you wrote: > > I believe you can use the license for the FreeBSD version too :). > In light of these 2 threads, I'd like to ask what the advantage of a FreeBSD > version is (from a technical, not a PR point of view.. obvious its great PR > news), and why Opera have decided to release a native FreeBSD version ? My point of view: - it runs faster (about 15-20%); - it can use native shared libs of QT, which is good becuase of ability to do clean upgrades of QT. > Anyone know, or have any ideas ? From my point of view, I feel its "cleaner" > to run something native, that can hopefully take advantage of some of the > FreeBSD features, but then, I sometimes can't escape these puritanical > thoughts whilst I'm stuck in my Ivory Tower :-) I think that becuase of this Opera release we may finally have native Flash plugin from Macromedia. -- NEVE-RIPE Ukrainian FreeBSD User Group http://uafug.org.ua/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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