Google Chrome Operating System in 2010

I'm downloading a VM of it right now. You can get it at gdgt.

 

I only run the Chrome browser on my Computers now.

 

This is awesome news.

 

Why? What advantage does Firefox have over Chrome?

 

Sigh. Where's the mac version google!!!!???!!

Hrmmm. If chrome OS runs on intel, does this mean one could load chrome onto intel-powered macs?

 

The beta version is available here.

The rumor is an official release will come out in December.

 

So basically your cpu wont run without an internet connection? Everything is stored online? hmmmm.......

 

I found this particularly interesting:

Interesting that it's actually a Linux distribution. The key for Google will be compatibility. How will it play with Windows-compatible drivers/software? If it wants to succeed, it's going to have to attempt at being 100% compatible with everything.

 

Reading on, using Chrome as an OS is actually a really, really cool idea.

Each tab in Chrome is a separate process. Why not treat it like a task manager for an operating system? Each tab is akin to a task on your taskbar for Windows. I'm still interested to see how they implement the file system (I can't watch the Youtube video at work), but running applications should be just like having different tabs in Chrome and that's a really cool idea.

And, of course, I'm always a fan of open source.

 

Facebook dislike add-on?

There are actually still some sites that won't run properly in Chrome still.

I want this if I can get a netbook next friday.

 

Question .. . . While I know folx hates Microsoft

but
Will we be better served by having everyone on different OSes?

Rocket River

 

Competition is good.

 

In a sense
but . . . inconsistancy is not

Programmers having to write the same program for
MAC, LINUX, WINDOWS, GOOGLE = 4 times the work for the same program

just an example

Rocket River

 

Google will be a linux distribution.

 

Will it be a LINUX-BASED Google OS, or a GOOGLE-BASED Linux OS?

Can't wait until MocoSoft attempts to buy Google because of their recent success.

 

Linux is linux. The underlying components that interface with the hardware are all the same across every distribution from RedHat to Ubuntu. That interface will be the same for Google's distribution, so the drivers for Linux will work on it.

That said, I'm not sure Linux's compatibility is up there with Windows' but it's getting pretty high and popularity of a new Linux distribution (especially Google's) and their invasion into the OS market via Netbooks could springboard Linux up to near-Windows levels. Linux has been gaining momentum the last few years, mostly in server applications, and I can see it gaining more in the home consumer markets.

They tried back in early 2008 for $44.8 billion. They were rejected.

 

^ Yeah, I meant to say "again?" Nice link, sir.

 

Microsoft can't afford Google - nobody can at this point. Their market cap is $181B. They could only try to propose a merger but shareholders would never agree.

And there is no such thing as a "XXX-based Linux OS". Linux is the core of the operating system, but you can build anything around it. GCOS is going to be Linux as much as Android and Palm's WebOS are Linux. Both are built on top of a Linux core, but at the end are very different platforms.

 

QFT. It's similar I think to the UNIX underpinnings of OS X. Based on it, but the two are not the same.

 

I think I will install it in my laptop. It has SSDD.

Hope it works.