<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Cybe R. Wizard <<a href="mailto:cyber_wizard@mindspring.com">cyber_wizard@mindspring.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 17:57:48 +0200 (CEST) "Carl Friis-Hansen" <<a href="mailto:ubuntuuser@carl-fh.com">ubuntuuser@carl-fh.com</a>> wrote: > > On Wed, July 8, 2009 17:27, Karl F. Larsen wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > 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. > </div>Check the link that Glenn Holmer posted: <div class="im"><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html" target="_blank">http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html</a> </div></blockquote><div> 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 </div></div>