OT google chrome OS [was Re: Graphics card recommendation?]

[Mauriat Miranda]

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Robert P. J. Day<rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, Tom Horsley wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 14:50:02 -0400 (EDT)
>> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>
>> >   but what's their target market?  if you can install chrome on
>> > any other distro (you can, right?), how exactly do they plan on
>> > breaking into the market, unless they go hard at getting onto
>> > netbooks?
>>
>> That's the only target they mention in their blog. They say they
>> already have partners signed up to offer preinstalled chrome.
>
>  just for fun, i decided to install the chromium browser on my f11
> x86_64 system.  first, the prebuilt binaries are 32-bit only, so doing
> a yum install would have dragged down dozens of megabytes of i586
> packages with it.
>
>  however, grabbing the src package and trying to build it also didn't
> help, since the only supported arches in the spec file are ix86 and
> arm.  unless i'm reading it incorrectly.  does an x86_64 build of
> their browser exist for f11?
>

I think the v8 javascript engine that Chrome uses isn't 64bit ready
yet? or has issues in 64bit.
So use 32bit or wait (I'm guessing 64bit support is low in the priority list).

-Mauriat