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End of an Era? said by stevephl:There is already a mature stable open-source operating system available for free for PC's, called Linux. If you read the article, you'll see it uses the Linux kernel and adds a new windowing system to run the Chrome browser.
I would guess that it's not designed to run arbitrary local applications, like a "normal" OS. Rather it's a purpose-built platform to run the Chrome browser. The browser and the Web is the app platform. Offline/local use is managed by Google Gears.
This is much more like a consumer electronic device than a PC. It puts the PC at the high end of the smartphone food chain.
We may have just seen, on July 8, 2009, the announcement that marks the end of the PC era -- started by IBM with their original IBM PC announcement on August 8, 1981.
By the way this is open source but I would not call it "open". It's not designed to be flexible and changeable by the consumer. This is a feature -- no malware, no crapware. RMS is going to hate it, I guarantee. | | |
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| "We may have just seen, on July 8, 2009, the announcement that marks the end of the PC era -- started by IBM with their original IBM PC announcement on August 8, 1981."
More likely, this is the OS that will run in my next refrigerator. | |
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kudos:2 | said by rdmiller:More likely, this is the OS that will run in my next refrigerator. Now that I can see. It may also be an option for scaled down, "not quite dumb" desktops in large corporations as they move more of their processes to web-enabled applications. Think thin-client on steroids. MS Terminal Services exists, but it does have its limitations. | |
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said by MyDogHsFleas:said by stevephl:There is already a mature stable open-source operating system available for free for PC's, called Linux. If you read the article, you'll see it uses the Linux kernel and adds a new windowing system to run the Chrome browser. I would guess that it's not designed to run arbitrary local applications, like a "normal" OS. Rather it's a purpose-built platform to run the Chrome browser. The browser and the Web is the app platform. Offline/local use is managed by Google Gears. This is much more like a consumer electronic device than a PC. It puts the PC at the high end of the smartphone food chain. We may have just seen, on July 8, 2009, the announcement that marks the end of the PC era -- started by IBM with their original IBM PC announcement on August 8, 1981. By the way this is open source but I would not call it "open". It's not designed to be flexible and changeable by the consumer. This is a feature -- no malware, no crapware. RMS is going to hate it, I guarantee. EXACTLY!
Being a Linux user, and a former Google employee, they already use a form of Ubuntu internally called GooBuntu, and its a choice on company desktops and laptops. This ain't gonna be GooBuntu. All GooBuntu is , is Ubuntu, with security crap set up to live inside the Google Borg.
It's gonna be the Linux kernel, with a different Window manager...and it's not gonna have Open Offiice installed, like the various ...buntu distros. Its gonna rely on Google Docs, and all the other crap they have hanging out on the web.
No IT department in their right mind would deploy a Chrome OS.
If they do to this what they did to radio station automation software, I'll keep my current distro thank you very much. | |
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