Chef Marcel at your service! Food, Wine, and Linux may seem like a strange combination, but combining three passions can be a wonderful thing. I'm Marcel Gagné. Those of you who read Cooking with Linux, the multi-award-winning column that appeared monthly in Linux Journal magazine for 10 years, likely agree. With the help of my faithful waiter, François, Restaurant Chez Marcel serves up the finest in Linux and open source software paired with exceptional wines.

In that same spirit, this site features great Linux and Open Source software, ongoing wine tasting reports, recipes, and the occasional restaurant review. If you came here looking to read past Cooking with Linux columns, you'll find newer releases on the front page, a comprehensive list here and under the "CWL, The Column" menu link to the left. A votre santé! Bon appétit!

Google Chrome . . . for Linux?!

Fri, 09/19/2008 - 18:04 — wftl

As some of you know, Google released a new browser recently, something called Chrome. The idea is/was to fix everything that is wrong with browsers and make the Web browsers a tool to run applications. As opposed to just viewing Web pages. I'm being a bit silly here, but Chrome is built to be more like an operating system than a plain old browser. There's more but it's all only for Windows users since a Linux version doesn't yet exist. Wait . . . What? Check out this screenhost (click it for a full screen view).

Does that browser look unusual? If you run Windows as well as Linux, does it look familiar? Take a look at the drop down menu over on the far right if you need more of a hint. Yes, you are right. That's Google Chrome running on Linux, with a little help from the folk at CodeWeavers Inc. Renamed CrossOver Chromium, it borrows its name from the Google open source project behind Chrome itself. If you want to check out Chromium on Linux, head on over to yon friendly URL.

CodeWeavers is the company that produces the CrossOver suite, a package that allows you to run many popular Windows applications under Linux, without the need for a Windows license.

CodeWeavers makes packages available for DEB based distributions like Debian and Ubuntu as well as RPM based distributions like Mandriva, RedHat, and SUSE. An shell-based installer is also available to cover other distributions that might not fall into these two camps. Download it, run it, then come back and discuss it here. Are you impressed with Chromium? Do you really think it has the power to change how we view/use Web browsers?

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