Wave Issue 0101 1/4/01 Article 1-03

***Opera 4.0b5 for Linux Now Available
(January 3)

Opera 4.0 beta 5 for Linux is available on Intel x86 platform.
PPC is soon to come. Opera for Linux has been tested on RedHat
Linux 6.2, Debian Potato 2.2, Slackware 7, NetBSD 1.5_BETA/i386,
and Linux Mandrake 7.1. There are also ports to other platforms
working nearly as well as the RedHat Linux 6.2 version as well.

Qt 2.2.2 has been used to make this version of Opera for Linux.
There should be no other dependencies for Opera other than to
have an X11R6.3+ implementation (and, as already mentioned, Qt
2.2.2 if you download a package with Opera dynamically linked to
Qt) installed on the system.

Here's what Opera for Linux does so far:

Renders HTML 3.2 and 4.0 Pages
Executes most EcmaScript 1.1 (Ecma-262 v.3) programs
Renders CSS 1 and 2 extensions
Browses FTP Sites
Handles cookies
Supports HTTP 1.0 and 1.1
Displays GIF, PNG and JPEG
Hot list, bookmarks and bookmark bar
Imports Netscape, Konqueror and IE bookmarks/favorites
Support for XML
Support for WML (WAP)
Proxy server support
Communication through SSL and TLS
HTTP Authorization
Asynchronous DNS lookup with threading
Support for browsing local files
File transfer
File upload support
Restore window settings
Customizable toolbar icons
Keyboard link navigation
Printing (PostScript)

Here's what Opera for Linux doesn't do yet:
Print preview
Java
Plugins
Proper help windows

Some known problems:
Inline frames (iframe) don't always look good
Zooming with frames doesn't work well
Fixed elements / background scrolling is somewhat slow and ugly
Printing is unstable

www.opera.com/linux/