While I'm pretty much a full-time Linux user, and am spoiled thanks to the wide range of applications that's out there, I sometimes get envious of the software that's available for other operating systems. The latest object of my envy is Chrome, the Web browser that Google released a few months ago.
There are a lot of reasons for that, which I won't go into here. But I was more than just a bit disappointed that there wasn't a Linux version. While the code jockeys at Google are plugging away at a Linux version, it's not coming fast enough for my taste.
Sure, I can download the source code and try to compile it. I've read, though, that people have had mixed results. That was until I heard that the folks at a company called Codeweavers cobbled together a port of Chrome called CrossOver Chromium. It's more a proof of concept than anything else, but CrossOver Chromium gives you a pretty good feel for Chrome without having to boot up a Windows PC.
