CodeWeavers Package Google Chrome For Linux and Mac 239
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."
Works pretty well for me (Score:2, Informative)
Google Earth is native! (Score:5, Informative)
Please help with the port (Score:5, Informative)
Comment removed (Score:5, Informative)
11 days? (Score:2, Informative)
Oh, yes, it did! (Score:2, Informative)
That said, the wine community in general did contribute a lot to this, too.
Re:For those of you using Firefox on linux.... (Score:3, Informative)
Is the gist of what I'd written, before I hit 'Submit', and it crashed (Taking my internet connection, requiring a restart!).
More technical details (Score:5, Informative)
Cheers,
Jeremy
Re:Google Earth is native! (Score:4, Informative)
At least then it'd feel native.
Re:For those of you using Firefox on linux.... (Score:5, Informative)
Cheers,
Jeremy
Re:For those of you using Firefox on linux.... (Score:3, Informative)
Wine 1.1.3, it sorta worked in a crashy sorta way. Wine 1.1.4, it installed and mostly worked except SSL. I expect a fully working Chrome in Wine 1.1.5 or 1.1.6. Here's to fortnightly releases!
Really, I'm amazed just how good Wine is these days - and when it isn't yet, how easy it is to add support for a new whizbang app when you really need to.
Re:I would pay (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Predictable, Really. (Score:2, Informative)
I looked it up and that's not what the German's Federal Office for Information Security warned about.
Re:Predictable, Really. (Score:4, Informative)
Windows shares BSD roots with it's TCP/IP stack.
That used to be true. The Vista one is all new code.
Re:Google Earth is native! (Score:3, Informative)
I realize Google didn't create the .kml standard (k is for "keyhole" after all), but it defies reason that I can stick a bunch of markers on Google Earth, save that as a .kml file, then try to open that up with Google Maps, and it doesn't work. I'm only using Google products here.
Re:It's a hack! (Score:3, Informative)
it's just really a hack. I mean, as good as Wine is, it will never compete with a browser which is designed to run natively on a platform.
WINE is an implementation of the Windows API. This implementation is native, so you can say that applications are in fact running natively.
Copy and pasted from Wine faq:
4.3. Is Wine slower than just using Windows?
Actually, Wine is sometimes faster. The speed of an application depends on a lot of factors: the available hardware and their drivers, the quality of the code in the APIs the application uses, and the quality of the code in the underlying operating system.
Driver code matters a lot. If you're running a graphics-heavy application using a video card with very poor drivers such as an ATI card under Linux, performance will degrade substantially. On the other hand, Linux has superior memory management, and comes out ahead of Windows in many CPU-related tasks; see benchmarks for more information.
Sometimes, bugs in Wine can make applications excessively slow; see Performance-related bugs.
Re:or you could just follow the docs.. (Score:1, Informative)
Wow yeah, that's real useful. Thanks...