from Too Much Nick
“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.”
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Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OS
Awesome! I can run all the web…apps…that…already…Wait, this is just a browser that takes over your whole computer and runs some Linux programs? Basically you may as well just install Ubuntu and Firefox? I’m wrong, right?
(via nickdouglas)
You’re wrong and you’re not wrong at the same time. I think the idea behind Google Chrome OS is to have an ultra lightweight OS to run on netbooks. All of the software would be on the internet, so you wouldn’t need to have it all stored on your drive. So, it would certainly be a lighter, faster, and simpler OS than Ubuntu or most other Linux distros, but it would be much less powerful than Ubuntu plus FireFox, that might be all that’s required for some users.
It sounds like Google Chrome OS would be great for my grandma, but not for me.
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