Google Announces Chrome OS, For Release Mid-2010 1089
Zaiff Urgulbunger writes "After years of speculation, Google has announced Google Chrome OS, which should be available mid-2010. Initially targeting netbooks, its main selling points are speed, simplicity and security — which kind of implies that the current No.1 OS doesn't deliver in these areas! The Chrome OS will run on both x86 and ARM architectures, uses a Linux kernel with a new windowing system. According to Google, '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.' Google says that this new OS is separate from Android, as the latter was designed for mobile phones and set-top boxes, whereas Chrome OS is designed 'for people who spend most of their time on the web.'" The New York Times' coverage is worth reading, and there are stories popping up all over the web.
Uh huh. (Score:5, Funny)
Hold on a sec... (Score:5, Funny)
Buying stocks in companies that make chairs.
Chrome is the new Emacs? (Score:5, Funny)
Should be an easier platform to write for (Score:4, Funny)
I wonder if Google will allow native development on Chrome OS? It should be easier to write for than Linux itself is. First off, they have their own windowing system, and that probably means they have done something with sound as well. I wonder if the windowing system is based on a drawing stack that is hardware accelerated? I wonder if you will be able to print?
I really hope they don't force you into writing in Java for it.
And I wonder if they will offer Chrome OS as a VM type of solution that you can buy for Windows?
Re:"its main selling points"... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The web is NOT the OS (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hold on a sec... (Score:5, Funny)
That's all well and good, but... (Score:2, Funny)
Really, I'm looking for an alternative to Windows for PC gaming, and WINE doesn't cut it. Not by a long way.
Re:Please let there be no X! (Score:3, Funny)
Re Ken Thompson's quote ... I'd LOVE to see what KDE and GNOME could give me without X present. It's very strange, I removed them from my machine, and none of my desktop environments would run! What's up with that?
Re:Fear (Score:3, Funny)
I'm looking forward to leaked Microsoft emails about deliveries of fresh pants to Ballmer's office.
But surely... (Score:2, Funny)
...this means the OS will be forever in "beta"...
Re:The web is NOT the OS (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Competition is good, baby! (Score:2, Funny)
Does this mean (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Uh huh. (Score:5, Funny)
But that's okay, because it'll be a beta.
Re:Please let there be no X! (Score:1, Funny)
Your opinion will probably change once you reach your 15th birthday.
Re:Uh huh. (Score:2, Funny)
...RTFA
You must be new here.
Re:Yawn, another distro? (Score:5, Funny)
I'm feeling lucky.
Re:Competition is good, baby! (Score:1, Funny)
I like turtles.
Re:The web is NOT the OS (Score:3, Funny)
Allow me:
"GET OFF OUR LAN!
Darn kids with their Meta-This, and their Web X-dot-Oh that!
What's wrong with tables? And Notepad! THAT was the height of web development!
Been downhill every since!"
Better?
Re:Chrome is the new Emacs? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Uh huh. (Score:3, Funny)
First of all, nobody seems to appreciate how goddamn hard it is to make an operating system. You don't just wake up one day and fall out of bed and make one. Not even the smarty pants kiddies at Google can do that. These things take years. Decades, even. Ours started out 20 years ago, at NeXT. You could say it goes back to 1977, with the BSD guys. Heck, you could even say it goes back to 1969 with Dennis Thompson and Lionel Ritchie. Even Windows is -- what? Twenty years old? Something like that. For that matter, look at Linux. Correct me if I'm wrong -- and I'm sure you fucking freetards will find something to correct -- but I think Linus Tordalv started working on Linux back in 1991 when he was a high school student in his native Denmark. That's nearly twenty years ago, and the shit still doesn't run right.
http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2009/07/lets-all-take-deep-breath-and-get-some.html [blogspot.com]
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