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Google Chrome OS
fohfoh:
--- Quote from: dankles on July 14, 2009, 04:44:52 AM ---
--- Quote from: LiquidZero on July 14, 2009, 04:12:37 AM ---well...i have to admit it sounds a little like bullshit to me....
i mean sure i love google (chrome is okay too... but recently its been fuckin up! not to mention no plugins!)
first off how different would it be from windows(general populus),Mac (mostly working class people),Linux/Dev. OSs (for those super cool coders!). Would it be compatible with Mac and Windows?! that would be the only thing that would make me adopt it as my Prime OS.
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Over the years, I think it will be more like Mac and Linux.... We'll just have to wait and see I guess.
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It will most likely be a bridge in between. Just like how Mozilla is getting everywhere... how Google gets all over the place via Gmail, google docs etc... it's meant to be something that kind of sits in the middle and fucks up the "extremes"
Zayras:
--- Quote from: geoffreak on July 09, 2009, 01:43:15 AM ---Why Google’s Chrome OS Will Die [/shameless plug]
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Yeah pretty much agree with the author here, but I think he's a bit too pessimistic about it. I mean I still think it will fail, just because if they're actually going to go ahead an release an OS they should make it available for all computers, but either way it's going to be a bit hard for them to just take the Microsoft Office suite or the Mac multimedia programs off the market if they try to use alternatives. Nonetheless, it'll be interesting to see how it turns out.
& yeah... I used to really like Google, but they've become too big of a giant now lol. Kinda like Microsoft, everyone uses it (most people in a world wide scale anyways) but no one really likes it that much.... At least that's my current feeling about it.
dankles:
--- Quote from: Zayras on July 14, 2009, 06:54:08 AM ---
--- Quote from: geoffreak on July 09, 2009, 01:43:15 AM ---Why Google’s Chrome OS Will Die [/shameless plug]
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Yeah pretty much agree with the author here, but I think he's a bit too pessimistic about it. I mean I still think it will fail, just because if they're actually going to go ahead an release an OS they should make it available for all computers, but either way it's going to be a bit hard for them to just take the Microsoft Office suite or the Mac multimedia programs off the market if they try to use alternatives. Nonetheless, it'll be interesting to see how it turns out.
& yeah... I used to really like Google, but they've become too big of a giant now lol. Kinda like Microsoft, everyone uses it (most people in a world wide scale anyways) but no one really likes it that much.... At least that's my current feeling about it.
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I think in some ways he is comparing apples with oranges though. It's to early to formulate an opinion i think. Though I'm a guy that likes to keep an open mind (believe it or not)
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In the end, what I'm hoping for the most is that Google will give lots of code back to the linux/FOSS community.
fohfoh:
--- Quote from: dankles on July 14, 2009, 03:55:19 PM ---
--- Quote from: Zayras on July 14, 2009, 06:54:08 AM ---
--- Quote from: geoffreak on July 09, 2009, 01:43:15 AM ---Why Google’s Chrome OS Will Die [/shameless plug]
--- End quote ---
Yeah pretty much agree with the author here, but I think he's a bit too pessimistic about it. I mean I still think it will fail, just because if they're actually going to go ahead an release an OS they should make it available for all computers, but either way it's going to be a bit hard for them to just take the Microsoft Office suite or the Mac multimedia programs off the market if they try to use alternatives. Nonetheless, it'll be interesting to see how it turns out.
& yeah... I used to really like Google, but they've become too big of a giant now lol. Kinda like Microsoft, everyone uses it (most people in a world wide scale anyways) but no one really likes it that much.... At least that's my current feeling about it.
--- End quote ---
I think in some ways he is comparing apples with oranges though. It's to early to formulate an opinion i think. Though I'm a guy that likes to keep an open mind (believe it or not)
EDIT:
In the end, what I'm hoping for the most is that Google will give lots of code back to the linux/FOSS community.
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AFAIK, Google and IBM put a LOT into linux programming. Though I can't see whether they take then make proprietary and allow the original programmers to keep and continue, or how they treat the stuff. (Making proprietary just makes a new "Apple")
dankles:
--- Quote from: fohfoh on July 15, 2009, 07:53:38 PM ---AFAIK, Google and IBM put a LOT into linux programming. Though I can't see whether they take then make proprietary and allow the original programmers to keep and continue, or how they treat the stuff. (Making proprietary just makes a new "Apple")
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As of mid 2008, IBM is the #3 funder for linux, funding 7.5% of the over all work for linux. Google is the #13 funder for linux, contributing only 1.4% of funded work. And virtually all of googles contribution is due to the work of Andrew Morton, one of the key linux kernel developers.
So google isn't doing too much for linux yet, however I hope that will change.
I got those stats from a video by Greg Kroah Hartman talking on the development of Linux Kernel. He is also a key linux kernel developer.
Vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2SED6sewRw <--- A good watch while you're multitasking and doing something else.
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