← Back to context Comment by ramesh31 1 year ago One does not simply "build chrome". 10 comments ramesh31 Reply tgv 1 year ago Chromium has ungoogled builds: https://chromium.woolyss.com/ ranger_danger 1 year ago yes but that's Chromium, not Chrome (which is proprietary). I think that's what OP was saying mananaysiempre 1 year ago Not necessarily. Building even Chromium can be... unpleasant[1].[1] https://liberda.nl/weblog/heres-your-copium/ lifesaverluke 1 year ago The process is well documented :-) dudus 1 year ago FWIW I once tried and failed to compile Chrome. My machine didn't have enough RAM to compile chrome at the time. Even though it was able to fully compile any other software I threw at it. sebazzz 1 year ago Is that special to the Chrome codebase, or inherent to the fact that a web browser is now basically an operating system by itself? poincaredisk 1 year ago I think parent's point was that Chrome is not open-source, chromium is. 1 reply → lifesaverluke 1 year ago Yeah, you need a big machine. I provide Chromium builds for AWS Lambda, compiling on a large EC2 instance. recursive 1 year ago Just like the US tax code is well documented?
tgv 1 year ago Chromium has ungoogled builds: https://chromium.woolyss.com/ ranger_danger 1 year ago yes but that's Chromium, not Chrome (which is proprietary). I think that's what OP was saying mananaysiempre 1 year ago Not necessarily. Building even Chromium can be... unpleasant[1].[1] https://liberda.nl/weblog/heres-your-copium/
ranger_danger 1 year ago yes but that's Chromium, not Chrome (which is proprietary). I think that's what OP was saying mananaysiempre 1 year ago Not necessarily. Building even Chromium can be... unpleasant[1].[1] https://liberda.nl/weblog/heres-your-copium/
mananaysiempre 1 year ago Not necessarily. Building even Chromium can be... unpleasant[1].[1] https://liberda.nl/weblog/heres-your-copium/
lifesaverluke 1 year ago The process is well documented :-) dudus 1 year ago FWIW I once tried and failed to compile Chrome. My machine didn't have enough RAM to compile chrome at the time. Even though it was able to fully compile any other software I threw at it. sebazzz 1 year ago Is that special to the Chrome codebase, or inherent to the fact that a web browser is now basically an operating system by itself? poincaredisk 1 year ago I think parent's point was that Chrome is not open-source, chromium is. 1 reply → lifesaverluke 1 year ago Yeah, you need a big machine. I provide Chromium builds for AWS Lambda, compiling on a large EC2 instance. recursive 1 year ago Just like the US tax code is well documented?
dudus 1 year ago FWIW I once tried and failed to compile Chrome. My machine didn't have enough RAM to compile chrome at the time. Even though it was able to fully compile any other software I threw at it. sebazzz 1 year ago Is that special to the Chrome codebase, or inherent to the fact that a web browser is now basically an operating system by itself? poincaredisk 1 year ago I think parent's point was that Chrome is not open-source, chromium is. 1 reply → lifesaverluke 1 year ago Yeah, you need a big machine. I provide Chromium builds for AWS Lambda, compiling on a large EC2 instance.
sebazzz 1 year ago Is that special to the Chrome codebase, or inherent to the fact that a web browser is now basically an operating system by itself?
poincaredisk 1 year ago I think parent's point was that Chrome is not open-source, chromium is. 1 reply →
lifesaverluke 1 year ago Yeah, you need a big machine. I provide Chromium builds for AWS Lambda, compiling on a large EC2 instance.
Chromium has ungoogled builds: https://chromium.woolyss.com/
yes but that's Chromium, not Chrome (which is proprietary). I think that's what OP was saying
Not necessarily. Building even Chromium can be... unpleasant[1].
[1] https://liberda.nl/weblog/heres-your-copium/
The process is well documented :-)
FWIW I once tried and failed to compile Chrome. My machine didn't have enough RAM to compile chrome at the time. Even though it was able to fully compile any other software I threw at it.
Is that special to the Chrome codebase, or inherent to the fact that a web browser is now basically an operating system by itself?
I think parent's point was that Chrome is not open-source, chromium is.
1 reply →
Yeah, you need a big machine. I provide Chromium builds for AWS Lambda, compiling on a large EC2 instance.
Just like the US tax code is well documented?