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CodeWeavers Package Google Chrome For Linux and Mac

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the not-to-be-forgotten dept.

jfbilodeau writes "The fine folks at Codeweavers performed an 11 day experiment in getting Google Chrome working on Linux and Mac. Their efforts resulted in the Chromium proof of concept. 'Not only does this give Mac and Linux users a chance to see what all the hype is about, it also lets the world see just how far Wine has come and how powerful it truly can be. In just 11 days, we were able to bring a modern Windows application across to Mac and Linux.' Caveat: their implementation is free as in beer but not free as in speech."

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  1. Seriously .... by nbvb · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    You expect me to pollute my Mac with Chromium?

    Living in New Jersey, there's more than enough of it around, thankyouverymuch.

  2. Yeech by Jethro · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Wine has been at, what, "90% complete" for over a decade, or something? And it's still clunky and doesn't work most of the time.

    I tried posting this from Chromium, but it wouldn't let me login. Guess they haven't implemented cookies yet. But what I wanted to post was that a nice feature request for a Wine application would be the ability to, I dunno, resize the window without my WM crashing.

    I have some great hopes for Wine back in 1998, ut I all but gave up on it way back in 2005.

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  3. Is this supposed to be impressive? by BitZtream · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So ... in 11 days they managed to get it to run on another platform using a translation library that allows many Windows apps to just work under OS X and Linux.

    An application whos core is already cross platform and runs on OS X and Linux without an API translator already ...

    I'm sorry, whats the impressive part? Took me 2 hours to get it working in OS X, and that includes the time it took to install Windows on the VMware machine, wheres my cookie?

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  4. wine bah by HermMunster · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    fuck wine

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