Feature changed by: Pavol Rusnak (prusnak) Feature #308480, revision 6 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 #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. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308480