We got an e-mail from Opera this morning announcing the release
of Opera 5.0 for Linux:
Dear Linux Users,
Opera Software welcomes you to our best Linux Internet
experience to date!Today, Opera releases its famous Opera 5 browser for Linux. If
you are longing for a faster, more efficient and simply better
Internet experience, without having to pay, Opera 5.0 is the
answer. Opera, long known as the browser for more savvy Internet
users now enters the free Linux browser market with the its new
sponsor-supported version.You are now able to enjoy all its features, its speed and its
small size (it’s a 2.6 MB dowload), for free! In order to be as
universal as possible, the Opera Linux browser has been tested on 9
different distributions : Corel 1.0, Caldera 2.2, Debian Potato
2.2, Mandrake (6.0, 7.1 and 7.2), NetBSD 1.5_BETA/i386, RedHat
(6.1, 6.2 and 7.0), Slackware 7, SuSE 7.0 and YellowDog 2.2.Sail across the web with this super-speedy, flexible, and
efficient browser! Opera is a fast, small, secure, configurable,
and standards compliant Internet/intranet browser . Opera gives you
the freedom to run multiple windows without opening up other
instances and many more features that make it the best choice for
the serious web enthusiasts.Opera continues its commitment to the standards as laid out by
the W3C. That’s why Opera 5.0 incorporates new functions such as
better support for HTML coding. It is a recommended for improved
surfing:
- Improved scripting for Javascript and ECMAScript
- Improved support for HTML event handlers
- Changes to comply with HTML
- Support for CSS system colors leading to better color
handling- Improved news and e-mail handling and better and more
configurable email/news message interface.- Improvements in SSL handling of certificates
- Improvements in FTP
System administrators’ can enjoy as well our browser : with
Opera you can choose to disable some of the user preferences and
override user choices. Used with care this system is useful for
hiding items from the users; including proxy servers and network
choices.Opera is flexible : choose whether to show menus, buttons,
scrollbars, progress information, etc… If users don’t need it,
why show it? If users don’t like the UI gadgetry, they can turn it
off. If they don’t like cookies or referrer logging, frames or
multimedia, or if it’s just Javascript, one click turns them off.
If they’d like to customize the look and feel of your tool bar, no
problem at all. Customization pure, so that you can see the
Internet the way THE USER wants and not the way the designer
envisaged.Go to http://opera.com/download/linux.html
and dowload it now! Enjoy the first complete Opera for Linux
version! Do not hesitate to put Opera for Linux banners on your
website! Promote Opera with us!Do not hesitate on promoting Opera for Linux adding a banner on
your website. See you at www.opera.com