Chrome

Preparing for the extensions launch..."In a post on the Chromium Blog, Google Software Engineer Lei Zheng has announced that developers can now upload their extensions to Chrome's extension gallery. According to Zheng, the company is "making the upload flow available early to make sure that developers have the time to publish their extensions" ahead of the full launch." [Read More at The H]... [more]

How will Google's new OS effect the rest of the open source community?"Already, it's clear that Google's Chrome OS may be bumping heads with existing operating systems. For starters, the netbook- and Web-centric OS may overlap with Android, another open source operating system in which Google is invested. Android may be aimed at smartphones, but it's also garnered interest as a netbook platform. That could put it into contention with Chrome OS, which will be available for x86 and ARM proces... [more]

An innocuous posting on Google's official blog last night has sent huge waves throughout the IT community today. In that post, Google has announced the next battle in the war for operating system dominance has begun. And Linux will be their weapon of choice.The Google blog has often been the launch point for major news from the Mountain View, CA company, and this piece of information was no exception: Google plans to release a new Chrome Operating System, touted as an extenstion of their Google ... [more]

You've gotta walk before you run..."In order to get more feedback from developers, we have early developer channel versions of Google Chrome for Mac OS X and Linux, but whatever you do, please DON'T DOWNLOAD THEM! Unless of course you are a developer or take great pleasure in incomplete, unpredictable, and potentially crashing software." [Read more at the Chromium Blog]... [more]

Looks like Chrome Alpha for Linux is pushing all the right buttons..."This is an exciting time for Web browsers. Google Chrome is now available in alpha for Linux, and I downloaded it for Ubuntu. Despite the fact that I was running it on my rather underpowered Dell Mini 9, it started in the blink of an eye. Additionally, any JavaScript-heavy sites like Gmail or Google Docs were so responsive that it's almost unbelievable.... [more]

The big player is Google, and it's using Linux in a big way...

Marcel Gagne takes a look at CodeWeaver's new solution to running Chrome on Linux...

Google's Chrome is gaining in popularity, but it would be nice to have a native Linux version... "CodeWeavers, best known for making its CrossOver programs that use WINE to run many popular Windows applications on Linux and Mac OS, has just released a proof-of-concept version of Chrome that runs on Linux and Mac systems. "The free CrossOver version of Chrome, CrossOver Chrome, is based on Google's open-source Chromium code. It's not, however, an actual port of Chrome to Linux or Mac OS... [more]