you missed the news of google unbetaing the majority of their major products yesterday

Quote: Original post by Codeka
In fact, I was father dissappointed

If that was a fraudian slip...congratulations [wink]

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Quote: Original post by Codeka
In fact, I was father dissappointed

If that was a fraudian slip...congratulations [wink]

Nothing could be my father from the truth!

Quote: Original post by eedok
you missed the news of google unbetaing the majority of their major products yesterday

Yeah. I just noticed that. My mail is longer beta... yay?!

Sounds cool to me. If they do nothing other than make a new flavor of Linux with a high amount of polish and usability, then that alone would be a great and useful thing.

I have a feeling that the netbook emphasis is just a simple cover story, and they're hoping to take the project much further than that. But I guess time will tell.

Quote: Original post by Mithrandir
inb4betafor5years

I assume you dont know, the reason for the beta tag is chiefly a marketing tactic (I see MS with bing has adopted it as well)
The reason behind it, is to give the user the impression they can help improve the product with feedback, hopefully (for google) creating a partnership sense of contribution, 'help us help you'.
Personally I find it a bollux ploy

About the OS (if it could be called that), well theyll be shitting themselves in redmond thats for sure, but its impossible to predict how it will pan out

Will I have to re-download applications every time I want to use them, or will they be locally cached? If locally cached, when and how will they check for updates? Will my web app have to use Google Gears so as not to break for Chrome OS users who lose their web connections?

Do I want an auxiliary computer that can't do regular computer stuff because no desktop software runs on it? What is their replacement for X Windows, exactly, and how does that affect the existing Linux ecosystem - did they port Gtk and Qt?

For now, I remain skeptical.

Quote: Original post by Oluseyi
What is their replacement for X Windows, exactly, and how does that affect the existing Linux ecosystem - did they port Gtk and Qt?

Just reading that post a bit more, they actually say "a new windowing system", which could be taken to mean that they're keeping X Windows and just replacing Gnome with something of their own (meaning they wouldn't have to port Gtk and Qt at all).

Personally, I thought Chrome the browser was a big dissappointment and nothing really innovative. I'm hoping they can do better with this, but I'm not going to hold my breath.

Quote: Original post by Oluseyi
What is their replacement for X Windows, exactly, and how does that affect the existing Linux ecosystem - did they port Gtk and Qt?

I kind of get the impression that it just displays Google Chrome browser windows, so presumably the only UI you can use is one written in HTML.



Calling "rubbish" on the article, though:

Quote: People want to get to their email instantly, without wasting time waiting for their computers to boot and browsers to start up.

Waking up is fast, as is launching an email client or browser. Waiting for a response from a webserver is not fast.

Quote: They want their computers to always run as fast as when they first bought them.

Webserver responses are slow in the first place.

Quote: They want their data to be accessible to them wherever they are

I wish I had free (or even inexpensive) wireless internet.

This doesn't really solve the "Microsoft Office" problem either.


Then again... Gmail can open Word documents in Google Docs. So perhaps we're seeing the final pieces of the puzzle fall into place.

Back in the day people used to be verbally stoned for calling this kind of thing an operating system. The google linux doesn't seem to have anything new to offer, and I don't like how they can say with a straight face that you can obtain content any faster through a google chrome browser on google linux, as though you wouldn't still need to boot up google linux and load the google chrome browser. "Don't worry about setting up new hardware"- lol, we are still talking about linux vs mac and windows?