Subject: Re: Opera for NetBSD?
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Magnus Eriksson <magetoo@fastmail.fm>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/23/2006 12:47:56
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Ian Zagorskih wrote:
>>> Perhaps they could port it to NetBSD as well, if they had more askings?
>>>
>>> List members, go ahead... ;)
>>>
>>> http://www.opera.com/contact/
>> It's already here:
>> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/3.0/i386/All/opera-8.51.tgz
> It's a Linux version, no?
>
> $ file opera
> opera: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux
> 2.0.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.0.0, stripped
The fact that it installs into /usr/pkg/emul/linux/usr/bin/opera is also
a clue. :-)
What would we gain from having a native version anyway? 8.02 already
runs perfectly fine over here, at least.
"Thank you for not using any stupid Linux-specific tricks, please keep it
that way" is what I'd tell them.
MAgnus