Official Chrome Dev Builds for Debian/Ubuntu x86_64

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Jun 052009

Just when I was beginning to believe that Chromium’s source was somehow (purposely?) crippled to prevent its compilation on Linux, the Chromium dev blog has announced developer only binaries for Debian/Ubuntu compatible x86 and x64 systems. The only problem? Read this quote from the post:

In order to get more feedback from developers, we have early developer channel versions of Google Chrome for Mac OS X [wtf is Mac?] 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.

So yeah… don’t download it.

Anyway, here’s some decidedly unscientific benchmarks for performance comparison. I ran Peacekeeper on Firefox 3.0.10 x86_64 on my Mint 6 install (what’s the holdup with 7 guys?), Firefox 3.0.10 on Vista x64, and IE8 64bit on Vista 64.

Looks pretty good to me, though I quickly uninstalled it afterward. I just don’t get why ALL the privacy features were disabled on the Linux build…

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VirtualBox 2.2.0 Released

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Apr 082009

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I just noticed that VirtualBox put out a new major update, version 2.2.0. They’ve added some very interesting features in this version, such as OVF:

OVF is a cross-platform standard supported by many virtualization products which allows for creating ready-made virtual machines that can then be imported into a virtualizer such as VirtualBox.

Another interesting development is support for OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris (and Windows as well, according to the manual) guest operating systems. Here’s a video I just made to demonstrate it with Linux Mint 6 KDE:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHhn0f53x-w[/youtube]

First, I showed the basic GLX gears getting a respectable FPS, then I moved on to a quick demo of Armagetron to test it a little further. The fps were limited by the recording software, I actually got around 1400 with glxgears and Armagetron got around 170 windowed.

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