Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 12 Sep 2000 23:25:24 +0100
From:      Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org>
To:        John Toon <j.a.toon@btinternet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Netscape/Linux on FreeBSD an other horrors ...
Message-ID:  <20000912232524.B254@parish>
In-Reply-To: <39BDFDC6.A04C3FE@btinternet.com>; from j.a.toon@btinternet.com on Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 10:56:22AM %2B0100
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009120141360.452-100000@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de> <39BDFDC6.A04C3FE@btinternet.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 10:56:22AM +0100, John Toon wrote:
> 
> Opera is not available for FreeBSD

But they plan to do so. From http://www.opera.com/linux/:

    Why has Opera for Linux only been released for Linux 2.2 on x86?

    At the moment, the development team is using Linux 2.2 systems on
    x86. We're actively persuing ports to the following operating
    systems:

          Linux 2.0, 2.2 and 2.4 on: 
                Intel x86 
                PowerPC G3, G4 
                Alpha AXP 
                MIPS 32bit 
                Sparc 
                Hopefully StrongARM 
          SGI IRIX 6.5 or better 32 bit 
          Sun Solaris for x86 and Sparc 
          FreeBSD 3.4 x86 
          OpenBSD 2.6 x86 
          SCO UnixWare 7.1 
          SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 
          NetBSD 1.4 
                Intel x86 
                Sparc 
                Alpha 

    [snip]

    In the process of porting, we've been finding that many of the
    UNIX operating systems are quite hard to port to from Linux. The
    greatest problems we've been having is the lack of a stable
    compiler environment.

    [snip]

    We've attempted to start releasing a FreeBSD version as of this
    release, however, we're experiencing complications with the
    compile environment as well. GCC is working wonderfully, however
    the ld is generating some interesting errors related to templates
    which aren't quite understandable. We'll hopefully have a functional
    version at the next release. For now, we understand that Opera for
    Linux works well under Linux emulation on the BSD platforms.
    

-- 
		4.4 - The number of the Beastie
________________________________________________________________
51.44°N  FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org
2.057°W  My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark
mailto:marko@freebsd.org                http://www.radan.com



To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20000912232524.B254>