[KStrawn]

Wow. Chrome OS. As if someone didn't have enough of that "Chrome" name. Anyway, it's Chrome OS that really counts towards Google's reputation in the OS Wars.

Chrome OS, unlike Windows, will be, at its core, a Linux distro, with a totally differently configured UI and executable setup. And, yes, Chrome OS will also be open source the whole way. Open source, with the real Kernel.org backing. Android already has to be compiled from source using the git://android.git.kernel.org/ domain. And I'm sure there will be a "ChromeOS.Git.Kernel.Org" as well. Chrome OS will almost certainly be open source with the backing of Google.

Not to mention, Chrome OS will be more desktop friendly. Chrome OS will also be more Web-centric, something that's futuristic to the core.

However, I think the Chinese have taken Chrome OS a little too far. They posted a legitimate photo of Chrome OS running on a netbook. How do I know it's legit? Because gOS looks the exact same as that. Unless Chrome OS happens to be a clone of gOS, which I doubt because of the fact that gOS was very buggy and unpleasant, I think those pictures are fake.

[sharon333]

I personally have found chrome to be pretty nice.

[KStrawn]

sharon333, on 06 October 2009 - 12:24 PM, said:

I personally have found chrome to be pretty nice.

It's Chrome Operating System that I am talking about, not the Chrome Browser. Yes, Google is basing an operating system on the Chrome Browser and Linux!!

[varindia]

That would be another revolution in just the Google search engine. As we know age of communication will not saturate in near feature.

[amphi]

There is no Chrome OS. Not yet. They are still in Google Plus, their social networking site.

[LiveBrianD]

amphi, on 16 October 2011 - 01:00 AM, said:

There is no Chrome OS. Not yet. They are still in Google Plus, their social networking site.

Yeah there is - it's an OS on chromebooks - just the browser Google Chrome (linux platform behind it), NOTHING ELSE. You're expected to use web apps and such. I don't really like it and would gladly take a regular netbook over a chromebook. And the price of the chromebooks doesn't help either.

[ice49man]

I'm waiting for them to make a legit OS that competes with Apple's Operating Systems. Perhaps even one that could replace the OS on a Mac. As long as its better than the quality of anything made by Microsoft, I'll be a happy camper.

[LiveBrianD]

ice49man, on 22 October 2011 - 10:25 AM, said:

I'm waiting for them to make a legit OS that competes with Apple's Operating Systems. Perhaps even one that could replace the OS on a Mac. As long as its better than the quality of anything made by Microsoft, I'll be a happy camper.

What's wrong with Windows?

[Grr8008]

ice49man, on 22 October 2011 - 10:25 AM, said:

I'm waiting for them to make a legit OS that competes with Apple's Operating Systems. Perhaps even one that could replace the OS on a Mac. As long as its better than the quality of anything made by Microsoft, I'll be a happy camper.

Or Linux? Free, lightweight, plenty of choice, secure, and free.

[LiveBrianD]

Grr8008, on 25 October 2011 - 06:32 AM, said:

ice49man, on 22 October 2011 - 10:25 AM, said:

I'm waiting for them to make a legit OS that competes with Apple's Operating Systems. Perhaps even one that could replace the OS on a Mac. As long as its better than the quality of anything made by Microsoft, I'll be a happy camper.

Or Linux? Free, lightweight, plenty of choice, secure, and free.

There are also not that many apps for linux compared to Windows (adobe, games), and there's less support.

[Grr8008]

LiveBrianD, on 25 October 2011 - 04:44 PM, said:

Grr8008, on 25 October 2011 - 06:32 AM, said:

ice49man, on 22 October 2011 - 10:25 AM, said:

I'm waiting for them to make a legit OS that competes with Apple's Operating Systems. Perhaps even one that could replace the OS on a Mac. As long as its better than the quality of anything made by Microsoft, I'll be a happy camper.

Or Linux? Free, lightweight, plenty of choice, secure, and free.

There are also not that many apps for linux compared to Windows (adobe, games), and there's less support.

Don't want to get into an argument, but for most users, Linux is a fine equivalent.

[amphi]

LiveBrianD, on 16 October 2011 - 11:13 AM, said:

amphi, on 16 October 2011 - 01:00 AM, said:

There is no Chrome OS. Not yet. They are still in Google Plus, their social networking site.

Yeah there is - it's an OS on chromebooks - just the browser Google Chrome (linux platform behind it), NOTHING ELSE. You're expected to use web apps and such. I don't really like it and would gladly take a regular netbook over a chromebook. And the price of the chromebooks doesn't help either.

There is a chromebook? And I didn't know about it? Where was I? Oh yeah, I was under a rock.

[OpSec39]

I've got both Linux & Windows both running together. In fact I spent most of the day setting up themes for Windows inside Linux, @LiveBrianD your argument against Linux is (adobe, games) all major distributions of Linux support Adobe PDF and Adobe Flash and as for games, hold on let me count.

Ok, screw that, I got to two hundred and twenty packages and stopped counting but the list went on and on.

An if its a Windows based game nothing prevents me from emulating a pentium 2 with MMX and 1Gb of Ram and playing all the old greats like Half-Life2, Counter Strike, Halo, Quake 3, Laura Croft. The list goes on and when I get bored of the ones I've pretty much played to death I'll probably reflect that the PC is more than just a games console.

The support issue is a mute point like user groups are on hand 24/7 if you get stuck just don't be afraid to admit "hey I am a helpless noob and could do with a hand pls!" that usually gets someone to reply and take pity on your predicament.

Unlike Windows as Linux is FREE you cant expect a help-desk support number. Linux users think for themselves, I remember when I first started using it, yes I admit I hated it, but after 6 years of using it non stop I now know more than I did and would never swap it for anything else. Hands on Experience - is the only experience you need.

When I started using it there was no graphical installer, it's come on in leaps and bounds! I remember looking at my first attempt at an install and it just said "The amount of Ram specified by the system is erroneous to the amount required to for this run level please adjust your settings accordingly" and I remember thinking "ok, how?" and there was no help manual.

The amount of times I killed my own setup from BORKING some command to death or from seeing the words KERNEL panic is almost beyond count, but I blame myself, not the OS, if I type something in that screws everything else up, then yes I am sadly the one to blame, but it never got ride of that frustrated feeling of wanting to pick the machine up and throw it out of a ten story window when months of work got toasted.

As an example recently this week I added another hard-disk mounted it with the command mount -t ext4 /dev/sdb1 and made a directory for it in /crypt0 then added it to /etc/fstab and thought I would add a layer of encryption to boot. On a reboot I watched the classic signs of pure kernel frustration as it screamed at me, unable to find inode in address blah, blah, blah. But thankfully having killed my own setup countless times before I was not phased and knew what to do.

Kept a cool head, relaxed, went into the BIOS found the IDE channel for that disk, set it to DISABLED and reboot, problem solved, the machine couldn't complain about failing to mount a scrambled disk when it couldn't see any disk in the first place.

It's all cosmetic, removed the entry from /etc/fstab, another reboot, re-enabled the IDE channel and presto accessible disk again.

I know it all sounds like double dutch to a non-linux user but you have to think of the linux directory structure like a tree with the root(s) of the tree beginning at / then everything below that directory is a branch on the tree.

This post has been edited by OpSec39: 07 December 2011 - 01:15 PM

[snorg]

Anybody that would use chrome browser and/or OS must have rocks in their head.
The day I havta use either I will downgrade from PC to abacus.