Company to Preview Opera for Linux Browser 4.0a; Opera Browser Programmers Available From Booth No. 473.Business Editors, High-Tech Writers LinuxWorld 2000 NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 2, 2000 Opera Software A/S Tuesday announced that it will be demonstrating its latest Opera for Linux 4.0a (Qt Edition) Technology Preview 2 at the Linux World Conference and Expo, Feb. 2-4, 2000, at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . Among the Opera staff attending the Linux World Expo are the lead developers of Opera for Linux, Darren Starr and Karl Anders Oygard who are available to the press and public at Booth No. 473. Opera for Linux in its current state is not usable as a full browser browser Software that allows a computer user to find and view information on the Internet. The first text-based browser for the World Wide Web became available in 1991; Web use expanded rapidly after the release in 1993 of a browser called Mosaic, which used , yet Opera Software in the company's tradition of openness invites the public and its dedicated users to try Opera for Linux and watch the development of the browser unfold unfold - inline . Opera for Linux (QT Edition) lead programmer A lead programmer is a software engineer in charge of one or more software projects. Alternative titles include Development Lead, Technical Lead, Senior Software Engineer, Software Design Engineer Lead (SDE Lead), Software Manager Darren Starr states: &uot;This latest Technology Preview has improved greatly over the first -- we're moving forward by leaps and bounds. Currently we're concentrating on addressing user wishes and implementing features. It is progressing fairly quickly and I've been releasing when it works. So far that has meant updates every 3 to 5 weeks.&uot; The Opera for Linux browser is based on the latest 4.0 code of the award winning popular browser Opera for Windows; known for its small size, low memory footprint Memory footprint refers to the amount of main memory that a program uses or references while running. This includes all sorts of active memory regions like code, static data sections (both initialized and uninitialized), heap, as well as all the stacks, plus memory required to hold , speed and flexibility. Opera for Linux is being demonstrated from Booth No. 473 and available for download from the Internet. http://www.opera.no/opera_0125.tar.gz About Opera Opera Software A/S is a recognized industry leader in the development and delivery of highly efficient HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. rendering solutions that address the end-user, consumer electronics, communications and convergence markets. Its HTML browser - Opera - has since the launch in June 1996, received international recognition from end-users and the industry press for its speed and flexibility. Opera Software is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. headquartered in Oslo, Norway. Opera can be reached at +47/23.23.48.68 or on the World Wide Web at http://www.opera.com. |
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