Google Announces Chrome Operating System Discussion

Google today announced its Chrome operating system, an extension of the company's Chrome Internet browser that launched just under a year ago.

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This is great news, though it's sure to face ALOT of competition from Windows 7. Even with Microsoft limping through Vista, it maintained a dominant marketshare despite competing offerings from different directions. How would Chrome do against a standing Windows 7?

 

it will face competition from linux as well. if they are both free and open source, which are basically most linux distri

 

Loool Chaz this time your behind on the posting... somebody has already created an entensive thread on this

 

LOL...I like the sound of that...that made me laugh. They sure did limp through Vista all right. An injured OS indeed.

Anyhow, at the matter at hand; As i've stated in another thread my first impression when I heard the news was this would be a major Fail, but when actually read the details on the upcoming Google OS I think it might just end up being the future of OSs.

I guess we'll all see how it goes.....

 

ohhh nice, I like the fact that they are moving towards efficiency over cool looking crap.

 

It is linux based...

 

Google would probably make it efficient and cool looking. At least I hope they do. Someone does.

I'm looking forward to this although I don't understand the concept of the web browser as the OS or something like that.

 

I think the concept is to make it as simple as possible, meaning starts up quick and boots up minimal things so that you can be 'on the web' in a short amount of time.

 

Isn't Android going be used for Netbooks as well?

 

so basically its another linux distribution?

 

yeah but this is more of the cloud base variety. I am really interested in trying this out to supplement windows 7 on my machine.

 

hopefully it wont be *to* full of bugs. I wish them good luck though i think id check it out.

 

I would like if google start they own linux distribution...

It would be become a standard in linux what we REALLY (and I'm linux user since slackware 3 lol).

Options r good but when you have 300 package systems, 300 window managers, and 300 shells things become a little tricky and the efforts in coding being centralized would be much better .

 

Is this new OS just a lightweight variation of Linux or it is really new?

 

variation pretty much

 

Then it should be called new Linux distro made by Google, not new OS, because it is not. Linus should complain that his and open source community work is used by Google commercially without proper reference.

 

I tend to agree with you, Google does claim they're rewriting the security aspect of the Linux OS completely, but otherwise it will be a Linux distro and not a completely new OS as you would be lead to believe.

I like a lot of what Google does, I'm a bit of a doubter on what they'll be able to accomplish with Chrome OS though, and some in the industry are calling Google's initiative here a "Folly"

http://online.barrons.com/article/SB124726722483025477.html#mod=BOL_hps_dc

Time will tell.

 

They said it will be completely different from Android.

It'll be based on cloud computing with the main applications built in web programming languages. Another good writeup here [link removed by moderator]

Yeah it'll be linux based but they plan to take the way operating systems work in a completely different direction.

 

It's not really intended as a direct competitor yet with other major OSes, is the impression I got. More of a web-based environment, I gather. Come to think of it, that sort of fits in with Google conspiracy theories...