OT Chrome OS next year

[Raseel Bhagat]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Cybe R. Wizard
<cyber_wizard at mindspring.com>wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 17:57:48 +0200 (CEST)
> "Carl Friis-Hansen" <ubuntuuser at carl-fh.com> wrote:
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> > On Wed, July 8, 2009 17:27, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
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> > >     I noticed on the financial page that Google is going to
> > > offer a new operating system called Chrome which it hopes will give
> > > Microsoft some competition in 2010. It is an open code development
> > > so you can just d/l the system like we do with Ubuntu.
> > >
> > >     My how things change.
> > >
> > > 73 Karl
> >
> > I think Chrome OS is a browser, sorry.
> > I have used it now and then and it is faster.  However, it could be
> > because it is somewhat down to the bare bones at the moment.
> >
> Check the link that Glenn Holmer posted:
> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html
>


IIRC, Google was also working on a Ubuntu clone called Goobuntu. And gOS is
also a Ubuntu based OS with Google gadgets embedded on the Desktop.

The thing that first drove me wild was the Sheep mentality of the world.
Open Source and Linux Distros already have everything that Google Chrome OS
plans to offer and God knows much more than that.
But just because "GOOGLE" decides to offer it's own Distro, the world is
sitting up and taking notice.
However,  I then reaslised, as someone mentioned earlier, this will probably
be good for Open source software acceptance.
And who other than Google to pull such a thing off. Suddenly, millions of
people will come to know about the concept of open source software and
thousands of geeks from "the other side" will start poking around and
contributing to code.

All in all, this looks like a Win-Win situation to me.

Thanks,
Raseel
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