About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 95. Chapters: Access Linux Platform, Android software development, Armadeus systems, Asmutils, Baidu Yi, BeagleBoard, Ben NanoNote, BitBake, BusyBox, CE Linux Forum, Cotton Candy (single-board computer), CuBox, CyanogenMod, Dillo, Diskless Remote Boot in Linux, DSPnano RTOS, Elphel, Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset, ExtremeXOS, FBReader, GENIVI Alliance, GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative, Google Chrome, GPE, Gumstix, H1droid, IPAQ, JFFS2, Jornada (PDA), KDrive, KOAN (company), LART (computer), Leapfrog Didj, Leapster Explorer, LiMo Platform, List of devices that run MontaVista Linux, List of wireless router firmware projects, LogFS, LTIB, Lynx (web browser), Mathomatic, MicroB, Minimo, MIUI, Mobile Internet device, Moblin, Mylo (Sony), Nokia 770 Internet Tablet, Nokia N800, OmapZoom, OMFGB, OpenEmbedded, Openmoko Linux, Opera (web browser), OPhone, OPIE user interface, PandaBoard, Pandora (console), Process control daemon, PSXLinux, QP (framework), Qt (framework), Qt Extended, Qt Extended Improved, Replicant (operating system), Scratchbox, Scratchbox2, Sharp Zaurus, SHR (operating system), SIMpad, Simputer, SmallX, Smartwatch, Stand-alone shell, SYSGO, TimeSys, Touch Book, UBIFS, UClibc, XFast, YAFFS, Yocto Project, Yopy, Zipit wireless messenger (Z2), ZYPAD, Clinux. Excerpt: Google Chrome is a freeware web browser developed by Google that uses the WebKit layout engine (later versions will use Blink, a fork of WebKit, except on iOS). It was released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on September 2, 2008, and as a stable public release on December 11, 2008. As of February 2013, according to StatCounter, Google Chrome has a 37% worldwide usage share of web browsers making it the most widely used web browser in the world. Net Applications, however, indicates that Chrome is only third when it comes to the size of its user base, behind Internet Explorer and Firefox. In September 2008, Google released the majority of Chrome's source code as an open source project called Chromium, on which Chrome releases are still based. Google's Eric Schmidt opposed the development of an independent web browser for six years. He stated that "at the time, Google was a small company," and he did not want to go through "bruising browser wars." After co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page hired several Mozilla Firefox developers and built a demonstration of Chrome, however, Schmidt admitted that "It was so good that it essentially forced me to change my mind." The release announcement was originally scheduled for September 3, 2008, and a comic by Scott McCloud was to be sent to journalists and bloggers explaining the features within the new browser. Copies intended for Europe were shipped early and German blogger Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped made a scanned copy of the 38-page comic available on his website after receiving it on September 1, 2008. Google subsequently made the comic available on Google Books and mentioned it on their official blog along with an explanation for the early release. An early version of Chromium for Linux, explaining the difference between Chrome and ChromiumThe browser was first publicly released for Microsoft Windows (XP and later versions) on September 2, 2008 in 43 languages, officially a beta version. On the same day
