The web has been awash with rumors about Google Gears for the past week or two. It appears Google has quietly dropped development of the system.
I'm getting errors on my Ubuntu laptop since weeks!
The error is about that my Linux version is not compatible with current version of Gears. Firefox show a menu item called "Gears Settings", but nothing happens if you click that option.
Looks like it's over with Gears...
Google Chrome for Linux (Beta)
At Google, most engineers use Linux machines, so we certainly heard loud and clear how much they wanted Google Chrome for Linux. Just like Google Chrome for Windows and Mac, we focused on speed, stability and security, but we also wanted a high-performance browser that integrated well with the Linux ecosystem. This includes tight integration with native GTK themes, updates that are managed by the standard system package manager, and many other features that fit in natively with the operating system where possible.
Google Chrome for Linux in various GTK themes
WOW this new Chrome beta for Linux is so fast on my Ubuntu Laptop.
If some more extensions are available, its bye bye Firefox :D
Sun’s VirtualBox is ideal for testing different desktop environments (for example, browser testing), but I’ve discovered it’s also great for running a test server environment. Instead of setting up Apache, PHP, and MySQL right on your desktop machine, you can place them in a virtual Linux server. That way there’s no interference with your desktop, and you can ensure that your development environment is as close as possible to your eventual deployment environment.
With a virtual Linux server running inside your desktop operating system, you can SSH into it, upload files to it, load web pages from it–whatever you’d do with a real live server. And all the software you need is free and simple to configure. Let’s make a start!
I'm using virtualbox to run windows on my ubuntu system. I'm running a local server on my ubuntu configuration. I installed also some FTP server to access my webserver from the client. This article is a great example to do this upside down. I like this Virtualbox a lot :)
