 rexbinaryMod KingPremium
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| Introducing the Google Chrome OS Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we're already talking to partners about the project, and we'll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve. »googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/···-os.html
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| Interesting idea - and one more thing all the Google-haters can get bent out of shape over.
But Chrome? That's an unfortunate naming choice. What anniversary is that, anyway?
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SUMwarePremium
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Thanks for posting here. A thread about this was also started earlier at the security forum:
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join:2003-03-18
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So it seems as though it will provide a interface to get to a variety of web based apps which is mostly the purpose of a netbook. This seems to be announced a bit early but perhaps they are doing so in order to cutoff any ports of android to devices bigger than a phone. Kind of the lots of bandwidth device vs. the limited bandwidth device operating systems.
The other thing I take from the news is that they are doing the typical 'their way' then they'll release something to the public later that won't build upon any existing softwares. Seems like if they can't own it or buy it they don't want anything to do with it lately unless it's came in with something they did buy..
I'd guess this will be their chrome browser as the interface and all the system utilities will have a web interface for changing things. I guess the big thing will be if they decide to include something that allows normal applications to run. I kind of doubt it because that will require a full blown window manager which I'm sure they are trying to avoid.
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1 edit | said by firephoto:The other thing I take from the news is that they are doing the typical 'their way' then they'll release something to the public later that won't build upon any existing softwares. Seems like if they can't own it or buy it they don't want anything to do with it lately unless it's came in with something they did buy.. I'd guess this will be their chrome browser as the interface and all the system utilities will have a web interface for changing things. I guess the big thing will be if they decide to include something that allows normal applications to run. I kind of doubt it because that will require a full blown window manager which I'm sure they are trying to avoid. "Google will be delivering a complete desktop software stack -- Linux foundation, graphical environment, and Web-based application stack. The desktop interface is not going to be either GNOME- or KDE-based. I'm told by sources, however, that it will be using the Portland Project's desktop APIs (application programming interfaces), which will allow existing Linux desktop applications like the groupware program Evolution and OpenOffice to work with Chrome OS." »Re: Google's OS |
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Eric Schmidt, CEO, Google, invites Microsoft to install Internet Explorer in the Chrome OS.  »Microsoft Responds |
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