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1 Open Spource Living:Browsers
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3 :author: Aaron Ball
4 :email: nullspoon@iohq.net
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9 Open source software has got to be one of the coolest things to hit planet
10 earth in a long time. Anyone who's asked me about open source software knows my
11 opinions well. That or they have no idea because they tune out about five
12 minutes into my giddy speech about it.
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14 Either way, it's no secret that I'm a big fan. With all that being said, I have
15 spent a lot of time researching open source alternatives to my old day-to-day
16 options. Working 100% in Linux all the time, open source is about all you have.
17 With that, let's talk about browsers.
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19 For my day-to-day browser, I typically use Chromium. It is fast, installs fine
20 on the two distros I use (Debian and Arch), has incredible developer tools
21 built in, and has no odd dependencies on weird libraries that require me to
22 install all kinds of stuff I don't want just to use it (ie: Gnome or KDE
23 stuff). It's just plain and simple Chromium.
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25 Many of you have no doubt heard of Google Chrome and are wondering why not
26 that. Google Chrome is a branch/rebrand of the Chromium project, which was in
27 fact started by Google. Chromium is not Google branded and often contains
28 functionality that is soon to come to Google Chrome.
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30 Other open source browsers...
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32 * http://mozilla.org[Mozilla Firefox]
33 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_(web_browser)[Midori]
34 * http://wiki.debian.org/Iceweasel[Ice Weasel] (a fork of Mozilla
35 Firefox)
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