Google Plans a PC Operating System

jim cinetron-uEvt2TsIf2EsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Wed Jul 8 20:46:30 UTC 2009



On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 16:23 -0400, Rajinder Yadav wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 4:15 PM, James Knott<james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >> On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> On 08/07/09 02:51 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, jim wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/08/technology/companies/08operate.html?th&emc=th
> >>>>>
> >>>>   someone on the fedora list claims that all this is is a google
> >>>> distro of linux, stripped down to host their chrome browser and
> >>>> not much else.  so it's linux.  big deal.  not exactly a new "OS".
> >>>>
> >>> To about 90% of the population, it is a new OS so why dismiss it?
> >>> With Google's market reach and PR, this is a very positive
> >>> development.
> >>>
> >>
> >>   i disagree, since that article makes no admission whatsoever that
> >> their "new" OS is simply a repackaged linux.  while, *technically*,
> >> they have the right to do that, *ethically*, i think it sucks.
> >> they're announcing this exciting new development without giving credit
> >> to all of the linux developers who made it possible.  i find that
> >> incredibly sleazy.  but that's just me.
> >>
> >
> > The announcement from Google says "The software architecture is simple —
> > Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux
> > kernel".
> >
> > http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html
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> 
> This is the real kicker about the new google OS, from their blog:
> 
> "And of course, these apps will run not only on Google Chrome OS, but
> on any standards-based browser on Windows, Mac and Linux thereby
> giving developers the largest user base of any platform"
> 
> So really google OS = linux kernel + browser, nothing innovative about
> this or even worth talking about. More like chome + linux and they
> call it an OS =)

Sounds a bit like Splashtop http://www.splashtop.com/ with a Chrome
browser. With the exception that splashtop puts some of it's code in the
BIOS. 


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