On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Fx<[email protected]> wrote: > Steve, it's great to hear/read yet another account of Linux bringing > new life to an older platform! :)
Absolutely. I have Debian Lenny driving a G3 PPC Mac as a file server as well. > What's impressive is that your laptop is even less powerful than many > current-generation netbooks... if you're able to run Chrome on Linux > today on your P3, it bodes well for Chrome running on Atom-based > netbooks, and by extension, the chances for Chrome OS (Linux by > Google). Actually I had thought of trying out ChromeOS; But it looked a little half baked yet. > One area that's been of particular concern to me recently is the > performance and resource-consumption of Linux-based netbooks playing > Flash videos using Adobe's Flash for Linux plugin. I wonder, have you > had any experiences using your P3 laptop to play YouTube or Hulu > videos with the plug-in, with either XP or Linux? No I haven't attempted it yet on this Lenny install. It dropped too many frames in XP so I've been a little timid to try it on Lenny. I thought Flash didn't work yet out of the box on the builds. I'm beginning to lose favour with Flash; what with it hogging many CPUs at 100% usage and with the frequent "security issues" with Adobe products lately. I hope the planned WebGL<http://insidehpc.com/2009/08/04/khronos-group-details-webgl-for-hardware-accelerated-3d-internet/>takes off ! > Thanks for your original post.... I'm usually uncomfortable trying new > programs before they reach beta-testing, but your positive comments > encourage me to try out Chrome on Linux very soon! :) > I've read and I happen to agree with the opinion that; Google labels for beta/alpha aren't what we're used to in the traditional sense. GMail just arrived to release status recently. ;) Related articles by Zemanta - WebGL promises to bring hardware-accelerated graphics to the Web<http://www.macworld.com/article/142079/2009/08/webgl.html?lsrc=rss_main>( macworld.com) -- Cheers, Steve http://www.linkedin.com/in/torontostephenallen http://www.facebook.com/S.D.Allen http://portfolio-s-d-allen.blogspot.com/ http://friendfeed.com/chimpanze Zemanta <http://www.zemanta.com> helped me add links & pictures to this email. It can do it for you too. <http://www.zemanta.com/> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
