Opera without Sugar

If you one want the XO for surfing, you can do so without having to run Sugar. To do so, follow these steps

Removing 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 .xinirt in the home directory. The file should contain only one line:

opera

Start 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.