Geek Technica

The fastest browser for windows has been getting some major updates at it gets ported to Linux (& Mac). Chromium is not officially a “Google Chrome” browser, but developed under the wings and support from Google. Chrome is built from Chromium, the distinction is intentionally made perhaps to separate the “Google Chrome” brand.

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Wubi is a great way to install Linux for windows users in a safe manner. Before Wubi, windows users needed to make a separate partition to install Linux alongside windows on the same computer. Now windows users can run wubi installer which does all the work for you by installing Linux as you would install any application on windows.

The installer itself is a small file which downloads the ISO image of the Linux Desktop environment you want to install. Currently the choices are Ubuntu (Gnome Desktop Environment) Kubuntu (KDE Desktop Environment) Xubuntu (XFCE desktop Environment) and Mythbuntu (MythTV based PVR). By default, wubi looks for the ISO image in the same folder before it connects to the server to download it, so if you already have the latest ISO of the desktop environment you want to install you have to make sure that it is in the same folder.
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Virtualbox is not only the best virtual machine application out there but it is also free and open source. It runs on every major operating system and can host most OS as guest machines. To get the most out of your virtual machine it is important that your host computer has a decent amount of processing power and large memory to share. This of course depends on the guest OS installation.

If you are going to install a Linux OS as a virtual machine on a Windows Host, you will not need as much memory as you would if you wanted to install a Windows guest on a Linux host or (if you are crazy enough) a windows guest on a windows host. There are many uses of virtual machines from a developers point of view, if you are creating an application that works on many platforms, you would like to test them on as many platforms as possible. Regular users will find virtual machines useful if they want to use an application that only runs on one platform. For instance if you are a Mac OSX user or Linux user, but you are very fond of the windows desktop blogging software like “Widows Live Writer”, which only runs on Windows; you can use a guest windows virtual machine to run this software.

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One of the advantages of popular open source projects like Google Chrome is that there will almost always be forks of the original project that will try to meet some of the shortcomings of the project, or improve upon it by porting it on different platforms that the project is yet to officially support. Google chrome is not immune to such fork / clone projects and each of them tries to meet some of the features that original project lacks.

1) SRWare Iron: This fork works on the original project by stripping out the features that has privacy concerns in the form of unique ID or submissions of entries to Google to generate suggestions. Apart from that it is an exact replica of the original Google Chrome. Binary available for windows only.
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