Opera without Sugar

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If you one want to use XO for surfing, you can use the Opera browser without having to run Sugar.

Remove Sugar

To prevent Sugar from starting up, edit /etc/inittab and comment out this line by adding '#' at the beginning: 

x:5:respawn:/usr/sbin/olpc-dm

The line should therefore be: 

#x:5:respawn:/usr/sbin/olpc-dm

Restart network

When Sugar is not running, the network must be restarted manually.

Download Opera

Download a RedHat version of Opera: 

wget ...

and install it 

rpm -i ...

Edit .xinitrc

To start Opera automatically when the X server is started, edit .xinitrc in the home directory. The file should contain only one line: 

opera

Start the X server

startx

Configure Opera

To increase performance, Opera should be configured to run without disk caching. To turn it off, select Tools->Preferences->Advanced->History and set Disk Cache to off.

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