Just saw this: www.vivaldi.com .

Not sure what exactly is new about it, but anyway.... maybe some of you guys would like to give it a look-see....?

domainator2010 said:

Just saw this: www.vivaldi.com .

Not sure what exactly is new about it, but anyway.... maybe some of you guys would like to give it a look-see....?

I'd like to hear more about YOUR experience with it if we're going to be shilling discussing new web browsers...

I'm tempted to ...

umm.... I haven't downloaded it myself yet - I thought maybe TD3-type folks would be ready to do the testing for me....

domainator2010 said:

umm.... I haven't downloaded it myself yet - I thought maybe TD3-type folks would be ready to do the testing for me....

I heard my name being mentioned?

Yeah,I read a little about Vivaldi last week. At first I thought it was "Opera" owned, until I read the more about the founders of the new broswer. Opera did lose it way; I dropped them years ago. Hell yeah, I'll test it and tell you what I think. I like any thing that light on my computer specs... less bloatware = better the performance. (IMHO) Vivaldi has to come with features and functions that allow me to protect my privacy on the web....ward off folks who think its their right to dig for my data.

Note: Raspberry Pi 2 has just come out, 1gig processor. My home media center is gong to fly>>>>>

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I cannot try Vivaldl even if I wanted to. I don't have 64-bit!

TonyVanDam said:

I cannot try Vivaldl even if I wanted to. I don't have 64-bit!

Come on to the 64-bit side Tony, its time. You could build a little box...

• Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-AM1M-S2H ($35 on Newegg)
• APU: AMD Athlon 5350 Kabini 2.05GHz Quad-Core ($65 on Newegg)
• RAM: AMD Radeon Memory Entertainment Series 8GB 240-Pin DDR3 1600 ($82 on Newegg)
• AMD Radeon R7 250 2GB GDDR5 ($ 93.95 on Amazon)
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It's a pretty bizarre choice to offer only 64 bit packages for Linux (.deb for AMD and .rpm for x86, wtf?). As far as I am concerned, it's not available for Linux if that's all they're offering as downloads. Either distribute the source or don't distribute it at all for Linux.

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Having searched around the web and asked some Linux geeks... Vivaldi 32-bit version will be coming down the pick after Vivaldi gets everything up and running. Sixty-four bit has become the norm, there's been a role reversal. Back in the day everything was built for 32 -bit, 64- bit, well some software companies supported it, others didn't. At some point 32-bit will be left behind just as Pentium M processor have been dropped by most Linux Distros. Well, a half a dozen or so Linux Distro's still support Pen. M's.

TD3 said:

Having searched around the web and asked some Linux geeks... Vivaldi 32-bit version will be coming down the pick after Vivaldi gets everything up and running. Sixty-four bit has become the norm, there's been a role reversal. Back in the day everything was built for 32 -bit, 64- bit, well some software companies supported it, others didn't. At some point 32-bit will be left behind just as Pentium M processor have been dropped by most Linux Distros. Well, a half a dozen or so Linux Distro's still support Pen. M's.

It shouldn't matter what type of a computer the end user has if you allow them to download the source code. The various licenses available for Linux state that you must distribute it in any case.

TD3 said:

domainator2010 said:

umm.... I haven't downloaded it myself yet - I thought maybe TD3-type folks would be ready to do the testing for me....

I heard my name being mentioned?

Yeah,I read a little about Vivaldi last week. At first I thought it was "Opera" owned, until I read the more about the founders of the new broswer. Opera did lose it way; I dropped them years ago. Hell yeah, I'll test it and tell you what I think. I like any thing that light on my computer specs... less bloatware = better the performance. (IMHO) Vivaldi has to come with features and functions that allow me to protect my privacy on the web....ward off folks who think its their right to dig for my data.

Note: Raspberry Pi 2 has just come out, 1gig processor. My home media center is gong to fly>>>>>

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A bit off topic but.....Raspberry Pi has just come out ?

That´s a tad late. A good friend of mine has been using it for probably longer than a year now. I have no idea what exactly it is though. I think he uses it to operate all kinds of different things in his household. Even though he explained it to me, it´s still very mysterious to me.

Back to browsers....what´s your favorite browser, and why? I´ve been using Chrome since Militant and TonyVanDam recommended it here on the org, and I´m quite happy with it even but I was also happy with my Firefox before it started crashing all the time. And now Chrome keeps crashing all the time and I can´t figure out why. I´m a computer illiterate.

novabrkr said:

TD3 said:

Having searched around the web and asked some Linux geeks... Vivaldi 32-bit version will be coming down the pick after Vivaldi gets everything up and running. Sixty-four bit has become the norm, there's been a role reversal. Back in the day everything was built for 32 -bit, 64- bit, well some software companies supported it, others didn't. At some point 32-bit will be left behind just as Pentium M processor have been dropped by most Linux Distros. Well, a half a dozen or so Linux Distro's still support Pen. M's.

It shouldn't matter what type of a computer the end user has if you allow them to download the source code. The various licenses available for Linux state that you must distribute it in any case.

Hey, I don't have a say on what can be downloaded or Linux policies. It is what it Its' my understanding that Vivaldi will be available for 32-bit computers, at some point.

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KoolEaze said:

TD3 said:

I heard my name being mentioned?

Yeah,I read a little about Vivaldi last week. At first I thought it was "Opera" owned, until I read the more about the founders of the new broswer. Opera did lose it way; I dropped them years ago. Hell yeah, I'll test it and tell you what I think. I like any thing that light on my computer specs... less bloatware = better the performance. (IMHO) Vivaldi has to come with features and functions that allow me to protect my privacy on the web....ward off folks who think its their right to dig for my data.

Note: Raspberry Pi 2 has just come out, 1gig processor. My home media center is gong to fly>>>>>

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A bit off topic but.....Raspberry Pi has just come out ?

That´s a tad late. A good friend of mine has been using it for probably longer than a year now. I have no idea what exactly it is though. I think he uses it to operate all kinds of different things in his household. Even though he explained it to me, it´s still very mysterious to me.

Back to browsers....what´s your favorite browser, and why? I´ve been using Chrome since Militant and TonyVanDam recommended it here on the org, and I´m quite happy with it even but I was also happy with my Firefox before it started crashing all the time. And now Chrome keeps crashing all the time and I can´t figure out why. I´m a computer illiterate.

Raspberry Pi "2" 1 gb vs. Raspberry Pi B or B+ 512MB

I purchased a couple of Raspberry Pi's over the holiday and I've quickly posted and sold them on Craigs List. Just got my R.P. 2's today, my media server is going to fly.

I avoid as much as I can anything Google, I use Firefox.

domainator2010 said:

Out of curiosity, novabrkr, are you a professional programmer?

No, I just tinker with existing code and mod programs to my liking if needed.

I should bring this up for the readers of this thread that aren't familiar with how things work on Linux: on Linux, all the different packages for different distributions (Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora, OpenSUSE... etc.) are done from the source code. The people who make the programs themselves do not usually make the packages themselves. They're done by the people who run the distributions or by the people who participate in the communities for those distributions. In fact, for some distributions the packages need to be approven by the maintainers of the distributions before they can be distributed under the packaging system. They need to be stable enough and can't interfere with what's already installed in the system. I really don't recommend installing any .deb or .rpm package unless it's downloaded from the distributions own (stable) repository.

As far as I know, the difference between 64-bit and 32-bit binaries in most cases is not restricted to much else than the systems they've been compiled on. I know there have been some restrictions with Flash with browsers in the past, but what else could be there to it? Unusual memory handling?

Many browser makers seem to just distribute the binaries too for convenience, so that you don't have to compile them themselves necessarily. A binary on a Linux is comparable to an .exe file on Windows. Firefox-based browsers do it that way.