Google Chrome OS

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Announcing right now. Excited. I might go grab a netbook with it shortly.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/07/live-from-googles-chrome-event/

 

[Colonel Ronan]

stfu

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

SHIT IS DOPE YO!

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

hopefully more manufacturers come out soon. I think they'll have a google branded one this week....who knows. that's the rumor. waiting for an acer and to see if i can tether my phone to it ok.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

 

[Colonel Ronan]

LOL @ curry muncher.

 

[Colonel Ronan]

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

"Hi PapaG"
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[EL PRESIDENTE]

live video:

http://www.youtube.com/googlechrome

 

[andalusian]

I am excited too. Lots of cool stuff coming to market, from this to the form-factor of the Dell Inspirion Duo and all the tablets...

We live in interesting times.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

the age of the Web App is officially here.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

google checkout.....meh.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

uggh..subscription based apps. Next: Microsoft Word...only $5 per month per user!

 

[Colonel Ronan]

Cool.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

This shit is awesome. (Chrome OS)

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

wow. the changes on Chrome change across platforms pretty damn quickly. syncs up fast.

 

[Colonel Ronan]

So what exactly happened?

 

[Rodolfo]

I want one!

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Fuck! Pilot program? are you fucking kidding me?



sent an application for it. hope I get it.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

open for biz:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore

This is fucking awesome.

tried out the tweetdeck app and GilT....nice crap.

 

[Rodolfo]

wow, awesome stuff. What are some cool apps you guys have found?

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

so far tweetdeck and ebuddy.

 

[THE HCP]

I'm confused. What is this?

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

They are moving to storing applications on the web instead of on your hard drive. Kind of like how your iphone has "applications" on it....same concept but for your laptop.

 

[andalusian]

More specifically - they are making the move to replace the operating system with a browser. Chrome OS is an implementation of the Chrome browser as the "operating system" of a stand alone computer.

This makes it fast (super-fast), instant-on and a real threat to Windows / Mac / Linux.

In order to do that - they took a page from Apple's book by creating an application-store - but instead of limiting it to the phone/iPad - they made it into a store for web-applications - and added a lot of functionality to the web browser that allow it to act like an operating system, specifically better local-database storage and really fast execution engine.

In other words - this might be the first real threat to Windows since, like, forever.

 

[Denny Crane]

This is nothing new.

It's Linux with browser as desktop. A free app store is not different than browsing for plugins, no?

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Linux is for dorks.

 

[Denny Crane]

Chrome OS is for dorks then.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome_OS

Google Chrome OS is a forthcoming Linux-based, open source[3] operating system designed by Google to work exclusively with web applications.[4]
Chrome OS will not be available as a download to run and install. Instead, the operating system will only ship on specific hardware from Google's manufacturing partners.[5] The user interface takes a minimalist approach, resembling that of the Chrome web browser. Because the only application on the device will be a browser incorporating a media player,[3][6] Google Chrome OS is aimed at users who spend most of their computer time on the Internet.[7][8][9]

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

It is.

 

[andalusian]

This is nothing new.

It's Linux with browser as desktop. A free app store is not different than browsing for plugins, no?

Not really. It uses a Linux based Kernel and nothing more. Chrome OS to Linux is like MacOS is to the BSD - the MacOS Kernel is based on some previous work done on the BSD kernel - but other than that - the OS is very, very different from anything that ever came out of Berkley. Same with Chrome OS and Linux.

As for the Apps/Plugins - again, not exactly. Plugins / Extensions are stored on the local machine where the browser is - and operate within a different (more privileged) context than web-applications. What Google did (originally with Gears and now within the Chrome implementation) is extend the ability to a true web-app to store data locally - so the application is actually in the cloud (unlike a plugin) - but it can store local information in a sandboxed local database.

Basically Chrome OS looks at the fact that many people spend the vast majority of their computer time working online - and remove a layer standing between the browsing engine and the hardware (the OS) - by making the browsing / web-application-execution engine the OS - it makes for faster, safer, cheaper alternative for traditional operating systems. In a way Apple tried to do that with the iPhone/iPad - but unlike Google they had to put restrictions on what can/can not be accessed (no flash, for example) - and have not done anything to extend the most widespread application medium out there (web applications) other than provide an old-fashioned (if rather well executed) browser.

Like the old times of Windows vs. Mac - Chrome OS does to iOs what Windows did to the Mac - open hardware, multiple vendors and cheaper prices.