Google Chrome Beta - Linux Version Not Available Immediately?
Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 67.186.227.113]
on September 14, 2008 02:58 AM
Wow. Sure Chrome looks great, but it's not as if it's some insane thing that will push open source into the mainstream. Firefox, as it stands, is better than Chrome (though I think it seems Chrome has a bit more potential - but with open source things, it's hard to tell), and in case nobody noticed, Firefox -is open source-.
The way to introduce good things into culture isn't by throwing in a single really good thing into the mix, it's by throwing a -lot- of really good things into the mix. Google uses Linux, and they will eventually release Chrome for Linux, so we can all beta test it. Chrome isn't even in the "really good" stage yet, so I fail to see what the big issue is.
Releasing it to the masses (Windoze) before the people who could actually help the project (Linux) is actually a good move, but not just for the reasons other people stated. If you release a crappy program into the masses, you get people going "oh, well it's just in beta" (and then there's the fact that Windoze users -need- more security, think of giving a shield to a hobo vs a person who is made of steel), but if you release it to the portion of people that are more likely to help the project, then it ends up as a program nobody really want to work on, because it's not even finished yet, and then it just lays on the backburner forever.
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Google Chrome Beta - Linux Version Not Available Immediately?
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 67.186.227.113] on September 14, 2008 02:58 AMThe way to introduce good things into culture isn't by throwing in a single really good thing into the mix, it's by throwing a -lot- of really good things into the mix. Google uses Linux, and they will eventually release Chrome for Linux, so we can all beta test it. Chrome isn't even in the "really good" stage yet, so I fail to see what the big issue is.
Releasing it to the masses (Windoze) before the people who could actually help the project (Linux) is actually a good move, but not just for the reasons other people stated. If you release a crappy program into the masses, you get people going "oh, well it's just in beta" (and then there's the fact that Windoze users -need- more security, think of giving a shield to a hobo vs a person who is made of steel), but if you release it to the portion of people that are more likely to help the project, then it ends up as a program nobody really want to work on, because it's not even finished yet, and then it just lays on the backburner forever.
Just a thought...
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