Harsh Words From Google On Linux Development

jeevesbond writes "The alpha version of Google Chrome is now available for GNU/Linux. Google Chrome developer and former Firefox lead Ben Goodger has some problems with the platform though. His complaints range from the lack of a standardised UI toolkit, inconsistencies across applications, the lack of a unified and comprehensive HIG, to GTK not being a very compelling toolkit. With Adobe getting twitchy about the glibc fork and previously describing the various audio systems as welcome to the jungle, is it time to concentrate on consolidation and standardisation in GNU/Linux in general, and the desktop in particular?"

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Re:World of goo anyone?

[K. S. Kyosuke]

I installed openSUSE 11.1. I played an MP3 file. The CPU was at 30% of utilization, half of it consumed by PulseAudio and half of it by the player (don't recall the player now, though, but I think it used one of those Fluendo codecs to decode the stream). I ditched it, installed MPlayer and it went down to 1.5%. Now what's the point of all that crap?