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Chromium beta now available for the Raspberry Pi

Posted by caitlyn on · 16 comments
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Developer Liam McLoughlin is still working on porting the Chromium OS operating system to run on the Raspberry Pi $35 mini-computer. But today he’s released the next best thing – a beta version of the Chromium web browser designed to run on the Raspbian Linux operating system. Raspbian is a version of Debian Linux optimized to run up to 40 percent faster on the Raspberry Pi’s hardware, and Chromium is the open source version of Google’s Chrome web browser.

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Comments (16)

caitlyn Story submitter ·
I will say that it looks like there is a lot of cool development for the Pi right now.
gus3 ·
I'm still working on the Raspbian review...
caitlyn Story submitter ·
I'm looking forward to it. I'm seriously contemplating purchasing a Pi and a Pibow case.
gus3 ·
Get the Pi and play around with it. If you want to keep it, then get the Pibow. If not, sell it on eBay.

For $35 plus shipping/handling/tariffs, it probably won't endanger your budget. ;-)
caitlyn Story submitter ·
I don't want a bare board without a box. That much I am sure of.
Steven_Rosenber ·
The company that sells them to U.S. customers also offers an inexpensive case. I'm thinking of rolling one as a print server.
caitlyn Story submitter ·
Quoting:The company that sells them to U.S. customers also offers an inexpensive case.
...and that company is?
nikkels ·
>>>I don't want a bare board without a box. That much I am sure of.

Next time you buy shoes ( or Pizza ) , don't trow the box away :-)
Steven_Rosenber ·
Quoting:Newark/Element 14.


The link I had to buy in the U.S. wasn't as good -- thanks for this one.

I'd feel a lot better if they upped the RAM to 512 MB or 1 GB ...
gus3 ·
256M sure beats the 128K in the original Macintosh... ;-)

I finished the Raspbian review, read it over, and concluded that it's by far the worst tech article I've ever written. So, ask me again in a couple weeks. I'll start over, using the "official" Raspbian release from the Raspberry Pi Foundation.
caitlyn Story submitter ·
We'll hold you to that, gus :)

@nikkels: An electronic circuit board is not the same as pizza or shoes.
gus3 ·
@caitlyn, I'm sure you will. ;-) And the Sun desktop models were called "pizza boxes" for a reason.
caitlyn Story submitter ·
They were shaped like pizza boxes. They didn't contain food that would be gone quickly, or anything designed for quick consumption for that matter.
gus3 ·
@caitlyn, are you saying the Sparc processors were slow?

And here I was all ready to sing the praises of load-store architecture.
caitlyn Story submitter ·
@gus3: No, I didn't say or imply that. It wasn't true when the pizza boxes were new. Of course, by today's standards SPARC boxes are slow.

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