Google Chrome development builds are available for Linux and MacOS. I’ve used the Linux build and it’s coming along quite well. I ran Chrome on Ubuntu all day today and found it quite capable, but still very rough around the edges. Many of the configuration utilities are unfinished and plugin capabilities like flash are missing. I’m looking forward to having a real alternative to Firefox on Ubuntu. While there are other webkit alternative browsers like Midori and WebKitGtk there are none with as many development resources as Google.
A very thorough Palm Pre Review.
Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created.
As fun as it is to revisit the past, the important metric is the direction of the future.
“Unix has had a long and lively past, and while it’s not going away, it will increasingly be under pressure,” says Gartner analyst George Weiss. “Linux is the strategic ‘Unix’ of choice.” Although Linux doesn’t have the long legacy of development, tuning and stress-testing that Unix has seen, it is approaching and will soon equal Unix in performance, reliability and scalability, he says.
