Comments on: Google Chrome OS and Canonical

By: Ten

Ten — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:20:16 +0000

@Jonathan:
That’s not really GDM. I believe it’s SLIM.

Anyway, I’m curious what will come of all this. ChromiumOS so far shows tremendous potential in the web apps arena. It will set the stage for a whole new era in how we develop applications for users. Instead of just webpages now it will be be applications such as blender3D like stuff to media players like grooveshark. The interface of ChromiumOS is likely to chance quite a bit at release date.

Google is clearly paving the way for internet only desktops and I think Ubuntu is on their minds, but I suspect there may be tension in the future from powerusers in the linux space. We’ll see.

Imagine a desktop that never needs updating by the user. Imagine a desktop that never needs updated packages. Hmmm.

By: rio2000

rio2000 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:59:01 +0000

good news - i can’t wait 2010

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:00:09 +0000

I have just watched the boot video of Chromium OS… it is amazing, it took like 2 seconds to boot into gdm. The os seems so cool for most of the people who only cares about web browsing, chatting, and some documents edits. It definitely seems the same way as the browser, fast,simple and reliable.
Congrats Google and Canonical team.
I am still using Ubuntu on my machine but if i had a notebook i would definitely install Chromium OS.

By: Ahmad - Medium Blog

Ahmad - Medium Blog — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:32:25 +0000

Wow…
It sounds crazy…
Thanks to Google
Future in hands of open source…

By: kpprom

kpprom — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:06:11 +0000

Sounds like a good thing, but of course I would prefer they used qt. Maybe Ubuntu could develop some kind of dual boot operation. Either a “Browser only” mode or Netbook remix could become more like Chrome OS.

Exiting times for Linux fans IMO.