[sllug-members]: Google Chrome OS - Linux based web OS

[Adam Barrett]

Well Christian, you are simply not their target market.

I would suspect this to be great for people like my wife. All she uses
a computer for is Facebook and Email. Kudos to Google.

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Christian
Horne<blendmaster1024 at gmail.com> wrote:
> sounds horrible. no web based oses please! what if ou don't have internet!?
> I'M sure not switching!
>
> On 7/8/09, Steven Morrey <sdmorrey at gmail.com> wrote:
>> These guys are shipping a browser AS their OS.
>> Does sound a bit like IE with ActiveX though doesn't it?
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Ricardo <ricardo.slacker at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Isn't there another company in redmond that keeps getting in trouble for
>>> shipping a browser
>>> with their OS?
>>>
>>> --Shane
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 7:03 AM, Marc Christensen <marc at mecworks.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Here's the announcement:
>>>>
>>>> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html
>>>>
>>>> It will be interesting to see what it's like.  It seems that Linux is
>>>> mainly used as a shim between hardware and the browser with little
>>>> running locally.  Intended mainly for web applications which are
>>>> completely cross-platform.  The windowing system will be new so no X
>>>> apps running natively:
>>>>
>>>> "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."
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Marc
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>
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