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2.0 Beta Chrome On Windows, Chromium On Linux

Posted by kdawson on from the ooh-shiny dept.

AlienRancher writes "Google launched this morning a new beta version of Chrome 2.0: 'The best thing about this new beta is speed — it's 25% faster on our V8 benchmark and 35% faster on the Sunspider benchmark than the current stable channel version and almost twice as fast when compared to our original beta version.' Other enhancements include user script support (greasemonkey-like) and form auto-fill." And reader Lee Mathews adds news of the open source version, Chromium, on Linux: "Not only has Chromium gotten easier to take for a test drive thanks to the personal package archive for Ubuntu Chrome daily build team, but development on the browser is also progressing nicely. Despite being a very early build, Chromium on Linux feels solid and boasts the same blazing speed the Windows users have been enjoying for months."

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  1. Linux Repositories == FAIL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Way to go Linux! Gotta love those idiotic distribution BandAids that are repositories!

    Listening to the Linux fanboys trying to convince the 99 percent of the computing world they are missing out the 'amazing' Linux application distribution method.

    Windows: Click on a link in the story about the new software app. Installer takes care of everything.

    OS X: Click on a link in the story about the new software app. Simply drag it to anywhere you want.

    Linux:

    Post link crying about how it isn't in the repository of your distro. Possibly go grab the source and try to compile it yourself. Spend hours tracking down library and build dependencies. Give up. Finally find a link to someone who has managed to build for your distro version. Try to manually place the right files that are scattered throughout the Linux files system because the is no standard App bundle format like on OS X. Meanwhile the bearded-GNU freak with the chiliburger stained Star Trek uniform teeshirt who is in charge of packaging software for your distro has woken up from his night of World of Warcraft raiding and bong hits and decides to get around to getting your software into the repository servers sometime next week. Maybe.