Those are games, huh? Sorry :) Well I read the announcement there, and I thought this part was a little silly: "Obviously, this Chrome OS will be lightweight and fast just like the browser itself. But also just like the browser, it will be open-sourced. Think Microsoft will be open-sourcing Windows anytime soon?"
Now this makes pertinent discussion for our group, but I think they're over-playing the open source card. There are likely to be a lot of parts which are NOT open source, maybe tucked into browser plugins or kernel modules. To make the comparison question here is off-base: when will google open-source their search engine algorithms???! Microsoft would have too much egg on face, and even more abuse.... while google would be giving away some of their top science :) I'm very curious to see what they come up with for a new windowing system. X windows is even more archaic than.... well you know. Also very curious to see how long until VNC can play nicely with their Chromeishness, and how well it can be remotely tunneled: "Hey I've got remote Chrome via SSH!" How long until we can hear that? ;) Desktop or per-window, I'm supposing it will play nice with Android too (bookmarks by bluetooth and call-switching from cell to google voice?). Sounds fun! Ben On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:25 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > If I can't play Stalker or UT2k4 on it...I don't want it. > > -E > > > -----Original Message----- > From: marbux <[email protected]> > To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group <[email protected]> > Sent: Wed, Jul 8, 2009 3:48 am > Subject: [Eug-lug] Google vaporware announcement > > Interesting vaporware announcement by Google: > > <http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/07/google-drops-a-nuclear-bomb-on-microsoft-and-its-made-of-chrome/>. > > > > "Wow. So you know all those whispers about a Google desktop operating > > system that never seem to go away? You thought they might with the > > launch of Android, Google’s mobile OS. But they persisted. And for > > good reason, because it’s real. > > > "In the second half of 2010, Google plans to launch the Google Chrome > > OS, an operating system designed from the ground up to run the Chrome > > web browser on netbooks. “It’s our attempt to re-think what operating > > systems should be,” Google writes tonight on its blog." > > > [more] > > > Linux kernel, intended for x86 and ARM platforms, open source. Sounds > > like an interesting > project. Don't miss the link to the Google blog. > > > Best regards, > > > Paul > > > -- > > Universal Interoperability Council > > <http:www.universal-interop-council.org> > > _______________________________________________ > > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > > > ------------------------------ > Finding the best videos just got easier. Try the NEW > Truveo.com<http://www.truveo.com/?ncid=emlweustruv00000001> > . > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > >
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