CrossOver team announces Google Chrome for Mac and Linux
Posted on | September 16, 2008 |
Its been just 11 days since Google’s new web browser Chrome launched exclusively for Windows - but the wonderful guys at CodeWeavers (the people behind famous CrossOver office suite) have already announced their Mac and Linux ports called CrossOver Chromium. Incidently, Chromium is the name of an OpenSource browser project based on Apple’s HTML rendering engine Webkit.
CrossOver Chromium is based on Wine, and demonstrates the maturity of wine project. Wine was architected to run windows applications on Linux as if its running it natively. CrossOver Chromium FAQs advise this to be a proof-of-concept, for fun proejct to showcase how much progress the Wine project has done and it may not replace your daily use browser.
CrossOver Chromium is available as Mac DMG packages for Macs with Intel CPU (sad, it wont be able to run on my PowerPC iMac 
) and as RPM/DEB packages for Debian/RedHat based distributions.
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