i was about to build chromium on linux today. why? well why not! i installed all the pre-req libraries. downloaded the source, a 700MB-ish tarball, that shocked me by extracting to near 2GB. i surveyed the documentation further..this time actually paying attention to details. and it appears that to build the app i’d need like 10GB free. that would be a horrible pain for me to free up at the moment.

so for now..i won’t bother trying to build chromium. i’ll wait for a more convenient build method or a binary package.
and btw chromium is the truly open source equivalent to the chrome web browser by google.