Google Chrome Operating System.

So what do you guys think?

http://www.macrumors.com/2009/07/08/google-announces-google-chrome-operating-system/

I really hope this is true, seeing M$ have another competitor would be nice!

Edit:
another one: http://www.pcworld.com/article/168036/google_chrome_desktop_os.html
Edit2: ops! I put it in the wrong section! mods move as you see fit
looks legit to me

 

This will be amazing coupled along with the Nvidia Tegra platform.

 

More competition is very good, especially in the OS market. I am all for it!

 

One thing I hate is reading the tech articles on something, and then seeing it butchered on the national news. That's a good reason why I never watch the news, but I'm at relatives' right now, and they were watching the news.

Like Android and Chrome, this will probably get legs underneath it because of the Google name and publicity. I guess a couple netbook manufacturers are already on board.

 

Google sees and knows all, scary.

 

maybe just maybe, Google will see the end of MS monopoly and go for it?

 

the more the merrier....

 

And Google will be the new Microsoft. There's always going to be a giant.

 

yah, then we need to hope someelse comes along

 

With the exception that Google does not feel the need to (re)invent the wheel.

 

Businesses won't jump on board, but this could lead to some nice, cheap, and quick-booting ARM netbooks.

Obviously, it will get a fairly significant user base, just because it's Google and because the media loves Google - the initial launch of Chrome was a good example.

 

Oh really? I think you need to re-think that.



http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/08/google-names-chrome-os-compatriots-dell-noticeably-absent/

 

very very nice! lets see MS get competitive!!

MS has some of the smartest people on the planet working for them, there is no reason they should be producing what they have been for the last couple years. vista is good and stable, but it's huge, so is win7. MS should be rebuilding the entire Windows OS ground up, everything! new File system, new code base (this will get rid of all those virus's). etc.

 

But then we will just have a google monopoly?

Anyways, what I don't like about this is that it doesn't use X, therefore most linux apps won't run....That means google has monopoly on and knows exactly what you are using in your computer(and more if they want). Basically maintaining the opensource nature while still being able to lock you in.

 

That is a very good point; I kind of thought that the point about building on top of the linux kernel was a bit of a red-herring.

 

google's chrome OS is not going to be linux by any means.

chrome OS sits on TOP of the linux kernel. linux is just a mature tool Google is using to get chrome running. chrome OS is going to be its own operating system and will not run any linux apps.

@ CJ

which part of midnight sun's statement do you disagree with?

do you think businesses WILL jump on board, or that it WONT have a significant user base, or both?

i don't see the business market shifting operating systems when google chrome os comes out. just not going to happen. the fact that chrome has the backing of computer hardware makers and adobe flash support doesn't really have any impact on whether businesses adopt chrome OS. that is exactly the type of thing that might allow for a significant user base composed of individuals, though.

 

I dont like Googles way of knowing things and not letting the user know things.

I guess a new OS is always a good thing, but somehow I think that Google will turn out to be a worse monopoly than MS.

Edit1: I just learned that Google's OS will be open source. It might not be that bad after all. This also caught my eye: The software architecture is simple -- Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel. For application developers, the web is the platform. All web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite web technologies. 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.

 

Who's disagreeing with you about what Microsoft should be doing in the best of all possible worlds? Unfortunately, none of us is Candide, and one of the reasons the WinOS doesn't get rebuilt from the ground up is that there is too much demand for legacy support among Microsoft's bread-and-butter customers, enterprise users; consumer users are, more or less, just a really gaudy dessert that gets attention out of proportion to its nutritional value.

 

I'm not sure I'm into an OS basically depending on the net 24/7. There's so much you can do on an OS(Windows, Linux, OSX) without net access. Sorry I don't want my apps on the web.

 

That's why you're not using a *NET*book (a.k.a. cellphone on 'roids).

 

Google replacing M$ is really scary. But, how much Chrome has to do with Linux?

 

A lot. How much does Ubuntu have to do with linux?

Linux is a kernel. It has a lot to do with the stuff that runs on it.

 

Are you saying that Google's Chrome is just a linux distro like Ubuntu? I was not reading anything technical about Chrome, so please forgive my ignorance. Recently, even such a distinguished private effort to develop a new OS like SkyOS had to switch from its own custom kernel to the Linux kernel.

 

Forgive my brashness.

All I know about Chrome is that it's a linux kernel with its own GUI engine (not X). So right off the bat it's going to be markedly different from all the distros that we're used to. There's also no telling whether or not it will use the standard system components that we normally associate with a distro, like libhal, dbus, and udev.

The point I was trying to make is that linux is a kernel, a free OS *component* that you can use for whatever ends you desire. (Brightly colored deathstar notwithstanding.)

The question should be: What relationship will Google Chrome have with FOSS? Will it be like RHEL or CrossOver, where they sell a bit and give a bit away? Or will it be more like Canonical's Ubuntu?