It’s “Browser Day” on LT, as Opera 5.0 for Linux is reported to
be scheduled for release next week, though a specific date hasn’t
been fixed yet.
According to a brief report at The Register, the current target
platform for the browser is systems running Linux 2.2 with glibc
2.1 on Intel machines, though plans exist to include a variety of
other possibilities, including Linux 2.4-based systems and perhaps
FreeBSD.
The current “tested” distribution list includes:
- Corel 1.0
- Caldera 2.2
- Debian Potato 2.2
- Mandrake 6.0, Mandrake 7.1, Mandrake 7.2
- NetBSD 1.5_BETA/i386
- RedHat 6.1, RedHat 6.2, Redhat 7.0
- Slackware 7
- SuSE 7.0
- YellowDog 2.2
At the moment, Opera is available for
download as version 5.0b8. Distributions include binary
tarballs, RPM’s, and Debian packages; both as statically and
dynamically linked binaries (against Qt 2.2). Users without Qt on
their systems will want to download the statically linked
packages.