An amazing but unknown Linux command: apropos

When working in Linux, I read lot of man pages for different commands while looking for some helpful information on how to use the command. But sometimes it’s hard to find a correct man page, because you have to know the exact man page’s name. Apropos is a man page searcher that works like a little google search on your Linux box and let you find a man page that you are looking for.

I didn’t know about this amazing command while I haven’t found it in an article at http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/614

Google OS: it’s a browser - Google Chrome

Google has yesterday published a public download of its own web browser – Google Chrome.

Google Chrome is a brand new web browser build from scratch and uses amazing new techniques.

For web pages rendering, Chrome uses Apple’s WebKit which is used in Safari and iPhone too. That makes loading of web pages really fast.

For JavaScript running it uses the V8 JavaScript virtual machine. V8 compiles javascript into a code that can run directly on a CPU so it makes a big speedup for processing JavaScript codes.

Each web page runs in its own process. That means that if a web page causes a browser crash (BUGs are everywhere), only a tab where that one web page was running will crash. It also means that memory leaks that are well known from other browsers does not affect Google Chrome. When you close a tab, you close a process and free all the memory that was reserved for that webpage. Isn’t it great? No more killing the whole browser just because it eats 1.1GB of your RAM.

As a developer you have access to a nice DOM tree, process manager, etc.

So far I really like it, even tho I am missing some great features from Firefox – plugins, rss handling, google bookmarks integration, etc.

You can download and learn more about Google Chrome from http://www.google.com/chrome and don’t forget to read a nice animated story about Google Chrome at http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/