Date: 24 Sep 2002 00:43:15 +0200 From: Henrik Motakef <henrik.motakef@web.de> To: Jamie Jones <jamie@host-997.news.landeg.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fwd: Opera press release Message-ID: <87y99swcn0.fsf@pokey.henrik-motakef.de> In-Reply-To: <200209232318.21194.jamie@host-997.news.landeg.com> References: <200209232318.21194.jamie@host-997.news.landeg.com>
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Jamie Jones <jamie@host-997.news.landeg.com> writes: > 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 ? I don't know about those threads, but here are my personal views as a mere FreeBSD user: 1) I finally don't have to keep all those linux libs around. Opera was the only program that required Linux compat that I used, except for building the native JDK. So, lots of free MB on my hard disk, and one thing less to keep in mind when configuring my kernel. 2) After a first test run, at least the startup time seems to be faster than with the Linux binary on FreeBSD, and even the Windows version on W2K. Obviously, I didn't try the Linux/Windows 6.1 versions yet, but that's just nice. So I'd say, lets give them some hits on their server so they'll notice that the FreeBSD version didn't go unnoticed... Regards Henrik To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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