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Linux is not the general
Linux is no less specific than any other operaing system around, be it windows ( any flavor) macos or BeOS,AmigaOS,OS/2.


There is no such thing as generic OS, no two operating systems share the same installation packaging mechanism, windowing/toolkit infrstructure, scheduler,network connection configuration... There is as a consequence no such thing as producing first a general release and then dealing with the specific as far as OSes are cocnerned.

The only true thing today is that windows all flavor is around 95% of the desktop OS market. Linux in comparison is less than half a eprcent. no more than windows NT. When comparing Web connected desktop market share, linux is 2%, three time less than MacOS, 45 times less than windows. Who would blame google for releasing first to the windows audience ? that's their core market.. no that's their market...

Releasing only to Linux wouldn't have generated any buzz either, for that they more surely would have tergeted macos...
Posted by: s_souche   Posted on: 09/04/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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There are Linux Build Instructions  D. T. Schmitz | 09/04/08
What concerns me more...  TheTruthisOutThere@... | 09/04/08
Linux is not the general  s_souche | 09/04/08
Agreed  CobraA1 | 09/04/08
I wonder -- would others please weigh in  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 09/04/08
My experience.  TheTruthisOutThere@... | 09/04/08
It is possible to generalize a lot of code that is general  DevGuy_z | 09/04/08
Development platform  Yagotta B. Kidding | 09/04/08
Verifying running to spec is done via unit testing not debugging  DevGuy_z | 09/04/08
I  s_souche | 09/04/08
10 years ago i used to spot Makefiles  TedKraan | 09/04/08
That should be easy to test  Roger Ramjet | 09/04/08
I don't remember  s_souche | 09/04/08
I do  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 09/04/08
sure  s_souche | 09/04/08
RE: Chrome, IE8, and longer term thinking  Rembrandt22 | 09/04/08
Weighing In  software_dev | 09/04/08
Agreed, its the UI that's the hard part. (NT).  TheTruthisOutThere@... | 09/04/08
Yes and interfacing to hardware, installation.  DevGuy_z | 09/04/08
Agreed!  DevGuy_z | 09/04/08
I am dissapointed in Google  Roger Ramjet | 09/04/08
Nobody out-MS' the MSers  John L. Ries | 09/04/08
Two types of lock-in.  Anton Philidor | 09/04/08
Nevertheless...  John L. Ries | 09/04/08
lol, you flipped it round  TedKraan | 09/04/08
Google is distracting itself  Mark Miller | 09/05/08
Chrome's financial gain  Anton Philidor | 09/04/08
Exactly  Roger Ramjet | 09/04/08
Google, the "media mogul company"  Anton Philidor | 09/04/08
Dumb Rays can be software-based  Roger Ramjet | 09/04/08
A couple of paragraphs lost me.  Grayson Peddie | 09/04/08
Chome confusion  Roger Ramjet | 09/04/08
Thank God you don't have to develop anything  tonymcs@... | 09/04/08
Portable frameworks  Mark Miller | 09/05/08
Exactly  jdickey | 09/07/08
The reasons Microsoft switched  Mark Miller | 09/08/08
This has nothing to do with the browser market  jorjitop | 09/07/08
Don't think of it as a browser  Erik Engbrecht | 09/09/08

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