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author | Aaron Ball <nullspoon@iohq.net> | 2015-05-31 14:51:03 -0600 |
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committer | Aaron Ball <nullspoon@iohq.net> | 2015-05-31 23:05:08 -0600 |
commit | c36a2dca1a39e25055c33dc179de4cf58e056fe7 (patch) | |
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parent | 1cae83d63794091ed5cc1248a39073a37979e571 (diff) | |
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A few more articles
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diff --git a/src/Open_Source_Living:Browsers.ascii b/src/Open_Source_Living:Browsers.ascii new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e71c62f --- /dev/null +++ b/src/Open_Source_Living:Browsers.ascii @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +Open Spource Living:Browsers +============================ +:author: Aaron Ball +:email: nullspoon@iohq.net + + +== {doctitle} + +Open source software has got to be one of the coolest things to hit planet +earth in a long time. Anyone who's asked me about open source software knows my +opinions well. That or they have no idea because they tune out about five +minutes into my giddy speech about it. + +Either way, it's no secret that I'm a big fan. With all that being said, I have +spent a lot of time researching open source alternatives to my old day-to-day +options. Working 100% in Linux all the time, open source is about all you have. +With that, let's talk about browsers. + +For my day-to-day browser, I typically use Chromium. It is fast, installs fine +on the two distros I use (Debian and Arch), has incredible developer tools +built in, and has no odd dependencies on weird libraries that require me to +install all kinds of stuff I don't want just to use it (ie: Gnome or KDE +stuff). It's just plain and simple Chromium. + +Many of you have no doubt heard of Google Chrome and are wondering why not +that. Google Chrome is a branch/rebrand of the Chromium project, which was in +fact started by Google. Chromium is not Google branded and often contains +functionality that is soon to come to Google Chrome. + +Other open source browsers... + +* http://mozilla.org[Mozilla Firefox] +* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_(web_browser)[Midori] +* http://wiki.debian.org/Iceweasel[Ice Weasel] (a fork of Mozilla +Firefox) + + +Category:Open_Source + + +// vim: set syntax=asciidoc: |