|
|
Post by iBishyT on Nov 21, 2009 9:16:11 GMT 10
|
|
|
|
Post by CoolCorky on Nov 21, 2009 9:30:29 GMT 10
Hmmm... This seems like the kind of thing that would be good to put on my old hunka-junk laptop.
|
|
|
|
Post by ShardNet on Nov 21, 2009 10:21:23 GMT 10
Looks like it may have its place, but I can't see it being useful for anything long-term.
|
|
|
|
Post by Sergeant Dull on Nov 21, 2009 10:45:56 GMT 10
Hmmm... This seems like the kind of thing that would be good to put on my old hunka-junk laptop. I disagree. I'm not sure if Asus's extremely streamlined Linux OS for basic use is readily available (It was inbuilt in some of their motherboards alone, had skype, msn, firefox and other essentials, as opposed to full PC use). Bu running an OS from the internet.... it's like.... having the Internet as your OS. |
|
|
|
Post by CoolCorky on Nov 21, 2009 11:22:14 GMT 10
But all I really use my laptop for these days is web browsing when I'm away from home. A lightweight OS is all I need.
|
|
|
|
Post by Oberstleutnant Insipid on Nov 21, 2009 11:38:00 GMT 10
*cries*
That company is going to rule the world if Microsoft doesn't do it first...
|
|
|
|
Post by dynamicsonic on Nov 21, 2009 13:50:53 GMT 10
I'm not sure if Asus's extremely streamlined Linux OS for basic use is readily available (It was inbuilt in some of their motherboards alone, had skype, msn, firefox and other essentials, as opposed to full PC use). Yeah, but everything else was crap. The least editable OS ever. As for this, it looks pretty nice. Love the fact that it is UNIX based and is 99% online. But that brings the question, what about everything else, like non-online applications, exe's, ROMs, ISOs, etc. What about 'em? |
|
|
|
Post by somebody probably on Nov 21, 2009 23:02:13 GMT 10
I'm not sure if Asus's extremely streamlined Linux OS for basic use is readily available (It was inbuilt in some of their motherboards alone, had skype, msn, firefox and other essentials, as opposed to full PC use). Yeah, but everything else was crap. The least editable OS ever. As for this, it looks pretty nice. Love the fact that it is UNIX based and is 99% online. But that brings the question, what about everything else, like non-online applications, exe's, ROMs, ISOs, etc. What about 'em? For the most part, it seems Google expects everything to be run as a Web app. You can kind of see why, too. There is one major advantage to this: All applications written like this run on every PC, regardless of OS or chip architecture (note support for the ARM architecture, yay ARM!), so long as they run Chrome or a browser of comparable capabilities and supports the same standards. This, however is no good for emulators, or anything that requires high performance. Word processing, web surfing, email viewing, and other mundane day to day tasks that most people just use their PC's for, however, can simply run using a fast JavaScript implementation (see Google Docs, which does just this). This does not help people who want to game or use emulators or say, run distributed HPC applications. This OS is not for those people. The thing is, in order to make this OS fast, meet their feature set and secure whilst still being 'usable', they're taking away a lot of freedom from the end user. For example, one feature they're talking about incorporating is having all files synced for the user no matter what PC they're using. Sounds like a cool feature, but then you have to realise that that means all of your data, private or otherwise, must therefore be stored on an external server. This is one of the things google talked about in a video about Chrome OS, they expect most if not all user data to be stored externally so that this will work. The only thing stored on the local hard drive will be the system. This quote probably best sums up my point: googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/releasing-chromium-os-open-source.htmlIt's easy and fast, but it's also inherently limited by standards that were only ever intended to be used in the context of making web browsing a more interactive experience. The OS will be fast, it doesn't have to do a whole lot, but applications may be remarkably slow compared to native applications on other systems. I think the OS will suffer if developers aren't given the opportunity to make applications independent of the browser. It's interesting to see where this'll go. I will probably install the first version labelled as 'beta' by the Goog on my laptop, but I can see myself becoming quite bored of an OS that ultimately adds nothing in actual functionality over a conventional operating system. |
|
|
|
Post by Sergeant Dull on Nov 22, 2009 1:56:49 GMT 10
I'm not sure if Asus's extremely streamlined Linux OS for basic use is readily available (It was inbuilt in some of their motherboards alone, had skype, msn, firefox and other essentials, as opposed to full PC use). Yeah, but everything else was crap. The least editable OS ever. I'm not talking about your KIPPERLY EeePC OS >> |
|
|
|
Post by iBishyT on Nov 22, 2009 2:21:31 GMT 10
I hope people make a Google OS-esque replacement shell for Windows, because I love the inbuilt browser tabbing system.
|
|
