Feature changed by: Per Jessen (pjessen) Feature #308480, revision 8 Title: Add Chromium browser to the distro openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Frank Vanderham (twelveeighty) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: The Google Chromium browser is taking over most Windows users desktops. Why? Because it is a very, very good browser that most Linux users want: minimalistic, fast and open-source. What more do we want? Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Chromium is a fast, minimalistic and open-source browser that is on a LOT of Windows desktops. Not only is it a great browser to use, but if a Windows user is used to it and can't have it on openSUSE, they won't switch. Discussion: #1: Per Jessen (pjessen) (2009-12-06 18:48:23) Google Chrome is not yet available for Linux. See e.g. http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/de/linux.html + #7: Per Jessen (pjessen) (2009-12-08 18:17:28) (reply to #1) + Correction - a beta version is available here: + http://www.google.com/chrome/ + I have to agree, it does appear to be very fast. #2: Frank Vanderham (twelveeighty) (2009-12-06 19:12:03) I am not familiar with the official guidelines for including code or planning for package releases into the distro, but since 11.3 is 6-7 months from now with a probable likelihood that the Linux version has been released by then, what do we need to do now (if anything) to be ready to include it into the 11.3 release? #3: Jakub Rusinek (liviopl) (2009-12-06 23:04:26) There's Chromium in Contrib. Don't replace Fireox with it yet, until it gets rock stable, usable and gets so many extensions available. #4: Ken Yap (ken_yap) (2009-12-06 23:41:13) Yes please add Chromium (not Chrome, unless it has been released by then) to 11.3 OSS so that it's easily available. #5: Pavol Rusnak (prusnak) (2009-12-07 13:44:00) As Jakub mentioned we have Chromium in Contrib (so it makes no sense to include Chrome in distribution). Why is not Chromium directly in Factory? Well, spot had some very good notes about that: http://spot.livejournal.com/312320.html Until these are solved by Google I don't see us putting Chromium in Factory. #6: Frank Vanderham (twelveeighty) (2009-12-08 06:36:49) I'm not sure how to put this without ticking some people off (which is really not my intent), but don't we have far less stable packages in Factory right now? I've been using Chromium 4.0.249.22 for days without crashes or restarting, which is not something I can say of everything that's in there. I read the livejournal article: the author mentions no big issues to do with stability / bugs. It's all about the way Google interacts with other development projects in the playground. From an end-user perspective, I couldn't care less if even Microsoft was engaged with the project. As long as they abide by the legalities of open-source, who cares that they shake up the community a little? Reality check: Chromium is a better product than Firefox much the same that Firefox was better than IE 6. But those days have past. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308480