Peng’s links for Wednesday, 3 September
Posted by Peng on 3 September 2008
I had a number of things to post, specially about Gustav and Google Chrome, but RL was so nuts the last few days that I decided to pare it down to just two links, especially since there a couple of sites who love to steal our content (especially mine) frickin’ verbatim. The lazy sonzofbitches need to either come up with their own content or close their damned blogs. Or at least give proper credit to the source.
I actually have just one thing I want to pass along, although from two different sources.
- Dante Díaz: Playdeb launched. Now Ubuntu gamers have a repository that can be used to install Linux games. Which games? How about these?
- Tom Dryer: Playdeb – The Gaming Repository for Ubuntu. Tombuntu is nice enough to give us some screenshots of using the Playdeb repo.
What about Google Chrome? I honestly can’t say how I feel about it personally. It’s only in beta, and while it’s a public beta it’s only available to Windows users. Since I don’t even have a Windows partition any more I can’t fire it up. True, I can try it in WINE, but if a web browser won’t run natively in Linux I’m not interested in using it. Although it looks like the Terms of Service for using Chrome are pretty heinous. From my own reading of the EULA I have no interest in loading this particular piece of Google code onto my hard drive, even if I do run other Google products.
Fx3 said
Chrome Beta is impressive, much more polished release than IE8 Beta 2 but I wouldn’t trust Google, since they do have their own agenda. Yes, posting this from Chrome Beta, but I’m gonna use Minefield as my main browser and Chrome as tech demo toy.
Nothing in Chrome would make me switch from Firefox 3.1, Minefield Nightlies are even more polished than Chrome for a pre-beta software and even without Tracemonkey turned on, it’s significantly faster over 3.0.