[OpenIndiana-discuss] google drive on openindiana?

Robbie Crash sardonic.smiles at gmail.com
Thu Aug 16 02:30:45 UTC 2012


That IS unfortunate, but sensible. Things are shitty now. You need to not
trust people.

I don't trust code I either can't see, or in the case of Windows, know that
they have more to lose than they have to gain by fucking me over.
On Aug 15, 2012 10:02 PM, "Jerry Kemp" <sun.mail.list47 at oryx.cc> wrote:

>
>
> On 08/15/12 10:02 AM, Robbie Crash wrote:
> > Chrome/Chromium is a better browser than Firefox in essentially every
> > single way. Promoting a better browser is not shameful, it's good
> customer
> > service.
>
> I'm not going to argue with you here, but I will say that my experiences
> have been the opposite.  At least on the Mac (Chromium vs. Firefox).
>
> Regardless, options are good.
>
> >
> > Chromium is fully open source. The difference is that Google Chrome is a
> > customized Chromium build. The same as the build on Ubuntu is different
> > than the build on Windows. The differences are outlined here:
> > http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoogleChrome. If
> > you're on a system with Chrome installed, you can either launch it
> > incognito, which disables all their 'proprietary trackers', or you can
> > disable all of them through settings.
> >
>
> FWIW, back in April 2011, some guy named ruben did a successful compile
> of Chrome and put his URL up on the desktop-discuss list.  The body from
> his email message is posted below.
>
> Don't bother clicking the link, his stuff is gone now.  You could
> probably find his site on the Wayback machine if you really wanted to.
>
> Anyway, for those of you who remember the follow on discussion, it
> wasn't one of thanks for your hard efforts.  Several people posted
> messages of distrust because the package(s) were not available from
> Google, Illumos or Sun/Oracle, or a site they were familiar with.
>
> It was a sad discussion to observe, and I felt bad for the guy who
> jumped through all the hoops he did get get it working.
>
> Jerry
>
>
>
>
> .......................................................
>
> > Hello, I recently ported Chromium 10, the open source base of the
> > current Google Chrome 10 stable browser, to Solaris 5.11 snv_151a. A
> > test build for i386 is available here:
>
> > http://chromium.hybridsource.org
> >
> > There are a couple issues I'm still ironing out, as written in the
> > notes.  Thanks to James Choi for his early patches from last year that
> > got this Solaris port going.
>
>
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