Google, you have begun to restore my faith!
So I was browsing around the internet an el register informed me that Google had released a Desktop search for Linux! Completely in disbelief I scurried over to desktop.google.com and was immediatly heartbroken. Binary packages for Ubuntu/Debian and Redhat/Fedora/SuSE only… No generic installer like with Google Earth. Hopeful, I grabbed the rpm and used Slackware’s rpm2tgz command and installed the resulting .tgz package.
It worked.
Even the little popup box that you get by whacking control twice works. Crazy. Go Google, I can’t wait to see if this is as good as I hope it is, because with 400GB of data strewn about I lose stuff constantly :)
For the record, I’m running Slackware 11.0 with Dropline Gnome 2.18.1. When I get home I’ll try it on istari, which is running Slackware 12.0 (current)
Tags: technology