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pack3tg0st
07-08-2009, 03:30 PM
[offsite=http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/07/08/google.chrome.os/index.html:z6jqorgd](CNN) -- Google is jumping into Microsoft Windows territory -- and threatening to change the way personal computers work -- with its own version of a computer operating system.
Google's operating system will augment its Web browser, which is also called Chrome.
The company says the forthcoming Google Chrome OS will revolutionize how computers operate, putting more emphasis on Web functionality, making computers faster and opening them up to helpful tinkering by outside program developers.[/offsite:z6jqorgd]
If Google can come up with an OS 100% compatible with Windows programs, yet user friendly...
Wonder if it will be Free...
GhostOfCaptSpaulding
07-08-2009, 03:44 PM
Can u suck the chrome off a trailer hitch? (http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/m4m/1258371756.html)
pack3tg0st
07-08-2009, 03:53 PM
Will this do?
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What's the chance is will be optimized for displaying google ads.
pack3tg0st
07-08-2009, 04:13 PM
110% lol
I wonder if it will send "usage statistics" to google to help in ad placement...
Most likely about 35% of the code will be for feeding NSA and DHS sniffing. Malware will not be able to infiltrate as it will be at 100% at release. Guess I don't trust the idea.
Cogburn
07-08-2009, 06:38 PM
I don't think it will be compatible, HP.
Given that it's only to be installed on netbooks, I'd be willing to put money on the fact that it's going to contain the Chrome browser and an off-line version of Google Docs and maybe some other apps from the Android framework. All your offline work will sync up to the Google cloud each time you connect to the internet...
If they end up giving it away for free to PC distributors it will instantly put it $100 cheaper than PC's w/ Windows.
guinnessford
07-08-2009, 07:41 PM
Ive noticed the add for Google Chrome for quite a while on Google video.
I just wonder how much of it hasd backdoors, like how theyve used google, Yahoo, and others to report to gov. agencies recently??
Cogburn
07-08-2009, 07:44 PM
It's open source.
http://code.google.com/chromium/
Grow your own. Backdoors not possible.
guinnessford
07-08-2009, 08:10 PM
Oh, sweet!
Thanks Cog, Im not really geek savvy, and im not callin you a geek.
Just the words I hear used with "knowing puter stuff"
Anyone try it yet??
Ill be a guinea pig with my work puter, I finally have it back!!
pack3tg0st
07-08-2009, 08:20 PM
I have google chrome the browser...
but Chrome OS (Operating System) doesn't come out until fall of this year
I don't even know if they have an open beta coming up or anything...
not a techie by any stretch, but lucky for me my mate is,......he was telling about a new propram they are using called Shadow-Protect, heard of it Pac?
guinnessford
07-08-2009, 11:33 PM
What do you think of the security of it, Pack?
pack3tg0st
07-09-2009, 12:46 AM
Meh, Browsers are only as secure as the broswing habits of the user typically...
It seems fine to me... Faster than firefox or IE.. (Never use I.E. lol)
I don't use it when I wanna do my super duper secure shit... for that I use firefox...
but for the average user, i'm sure chrome is fine.
boycotteverything
07-09-2009, 04:06 PM
KEY WORDS-
he software will be free, so machines that run it will be cheaper for consumers. Google promises that Chrome-based devices will boot in seconds, resist malware, and not need frequent updating. "Operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no Web," the company wrote in a blog post announcing Chrome. "It's our attempt to rethink what operating systems should be."
They're on to something huge. Microsoft will die a slow and painful death at the hands of the new Borg. Hopefully Bill Gates will be mowing my lawn.
pack3tg0st
07-09-2009, 04:17 PM
Bill Gate's isn't microsoft anymore... he retired...
But anyway, while it sounds like a good idea, and seems like it could cripple Microsoft's stranglehold on the PC market... it won't have much of an effect...
Linux has been around for quite a while, and enjoys about 1% market share...
Microsoft, has 90%...
BSD isn't even a blip on the radar...
More people running Mac OS than the "Free" operating systems...
Most people don't even realize that you don't have to run Windows... Many people think Windows is the only operating system in the world...
Look at the Linux Laptop... a few years ago, someone got the idea to build Linux based laptops... The cost per laptop: Less than 100 bucks...
No one uses em... I don't even know if they're available anymore...
People are lazy when it comes to computers... they want the "user friendly" bullshit microsoft churns out... it doesn't matter if its a piece of crap...
Point and click is all they want...
Cogburn
07-09-2009, 04:36 PM
I beg to differ on one point.
You don't see Free/OpenBSD on PC's much anymore, but you do see it within embedded systems.
There's a good, commercial reason why it's still being supported as heavily as it is compared to the desktop marketshare it holds.
Who's using BSD? If you want to skip the education in the evolution of BSD, start watching @ 15:00.
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boycotteverything
07-09-2009, 06:11 PM
People are lazy when it comes to computers... they want the "user friendly" bullshit microsoft churns out... it doesn't matter if its a piece of crap...
Point and click is all they want...You're right , of course. But the Google gang is turning out products that are even more 'user friendly' than Windows. Point and click? Mac had it first and look what happened to them. To me it seems that the Google Borg is the way of the future and that the Gatesian Borg will go the way of 8 tracs.
Cogburn
07-09-2009, 06:21 PM
Maybe, were it not for Windows Azure (http://reddevnews.com/blogs/rdn-express/2009/07/locally-in-the-azure-cloud-or-chrome.aspx).
For all the hype, Google is still just an advertising driven commodity like Buena Vista/Viacom/News Corp/etc.
Google has more money invested in R&D than Microsoft, Microsoft has a greater corporate marketshare. Companies buy Microsoft products and then make long-lasting business decisions based around that. Google simply cannot break into that market and is relegated to the IT underworld of direct-to-consumer products, however Google is dominating the market for consumer information.
Were it not for anti-trust you might have seen them merge 10 years from now. I'm sure each of them looks over the fence and thinks the grass is greener.
boycotteverything
07-09-2009, 06:49 PM
Google simply cannot break into that market and is relegated to the IT underworld hahahaha Time will tell.
Business has an enormous amount of money invested in doing business via the windows desktop. If a platform cannot run all the apps with a similar feel then it won't be anytime soon.
Cogburn
07-09-2009, 07:53 PM
Google simply cannot break into that market and is relegated to the IT underworld hahahaha Time will tell.
... or the flipside... Microsoft begins to infiltrate the consumer information market.
Do you bing (http://www.bing.com)?
boycotteverything
07-09-2009, 07:59 PM
I do have bing but I find it, like all MS products, to be slow and cumbersome. A pox on all of 'em.
Bitchkoma
07-09-2009, 11:39 PM
Google seems to be getting a bit obsessed with M$. This is like some kind of knee-jerk retaliation to Bing. How many fucking distros of Linux do we really need?
I'll tell you. Only one. Hannah Montana Linux (HML) (http://hannahmontana.sourceforge.net)
guinnessford
07-09-2009, 11:47 PM
"Point and click is all they want..."
The full, and complete problem with 99% of any issue in the world today: complacency.
I think Ill try em both on my shop puter, and let you all know how it seems.
Im not a great tech kinda guy, but Im fairly savvy with most stuff.
the only thing I fear, like most people, is security issues with the Chrome operating system.
If anyone else has tried it, please let me know how well it does with music, like syncing to my mp3, smartphone, etc.
I have a windows based smartphone, and Im really getting to like its features.
Wonder if I can change that browser.... Pack???? Any ideas???
pack3tg0st
07-10-2009, 12:37 AM
LOL never got around to hacking cell phones...
I'm sure there's someone somewhere thats managed to change not only their browser, but the entire OS for their cellie...
Call me a fan of simplicity, but if I don't like Windows OS for smartphones... I buy Palm...
not that its all that much better...
Maybe I"ll see if someone's got a Linux OS for cells...
heh... imagine that one...
Call /grandma/cellnumber.
Or even better
Sudo apt-get txt msg app
yah... could be fun!
Cogburn
07-10-2009, 12:55 AM
Yik. Palm. I can't stand writing shit in CodeWarrior or whatever the fuck they used to force you to develop in.
Android is OK... but it's not better than Symbian S60R5... and let's face it... the G-1 is a piece of shit cellphone and no other manufacturers are planning on releasing an Android phone that I've heard.
I dig Windows Mobile because when I get bored at work I can close the project I'm working on and develop a database driven application for Mobile6.
Palm and Apple still aren't supporting FlashLite (and Apple never will)...
Oh... and the iPhone does run on Linux, BTW. It's a slimmed down version of OSX, which is how the exploit in another thread was able to be effective.