July 8, 200916 yr So Microsofts fears may come true... Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OS Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks.
July 8, 200916 yr It's about time somebody got rid of X. $10 says we're shortly going to start hearing from Microsoft again about those alleged patent violations in the Linux kernel.
July 8, 200916 yr It'd be nice if they actually told us something useful about it instead of pouring on the marketing speak.
July 8, 200916 yr I thought this article asking questions about Google's Chrome OS was pretty interesting: Eleven Questions About Google's Chrome OS
July 8, 200916 yr Fake Steve was pretty good on this today. I'm glad he's back, with the new organs and all.
July 10, 200916 yr Is Google's claim about the OS security idiotic? Article about Google's security OS claim One more article: Will Google's OS Make the Desktop safe?
July 10, 200916 yr We had 0day for Chrome the second it was publically released. Literally that second. The same will happen for ChromeOS, I bet.
July 10, 200916 yr It's impossible to create a 100% secure OS. The best you can do is design it with security in mind and hope it covers most of the bases and to hope that new holes are discovered quickly and patched effectively. As far as I'm concerned, this new OS is just another Linux distro.
July 10, 200916 yr We had 0day for Chrome the second it was publically released. Literally that second. The same will happen for ChromeOS, I bet. Hehe, funny hearing 0day for a free release
July 11, 200916 yr If it's a "lite" Linux Kernel with a new web-based window system, what will there be for apps? I can't see this going too far, in all honesty. Though it may get my old PIII-1GHz system back from the dead Liked the Fake Steve article, pretty good and funny stuff. Asus started something good with their first netbook, but the main complaint I tended to hear (aside from power) was the cheap interface. Even when folks were installing full Linux on it, it was still a niche. Netbooks started getting bigger once companies put WinXP on it. Sorry, but that's what the masses are used to. Browser interface may be better than that first Asus machine interface, but I'm thinking it still won't be enough. Heck, if MS is so scared, they can probably offer a lite version of their own (aren't they doing it on the OLPC initiative anyway?), and the sheep will buy that.
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